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The essays in this anthology focus on many aspects of Indian Fiction in English. It seeks to probe discuss and analyse the issues arising out of the novels and offers deep insight to the readers. Important novelists covered in the volume are R.K. Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand, Anita Desai, Geeta Mehta, Salman Rushdie, Kavery Nambisan, Nayantara Sahgal, Arun Joshi, Shobha De and Arundhati Roy.

Contents: Preface. 1. Is Mulk Raj Anand’s untrouchable dirty/Ramesh K. Srivastava. 2. Mothers and mother-figures in Anita Desais Novels/Usha Bande. 3. Wom,en in the early novels of R.K. Narayan Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand/Michel Pousse. 4. History fiction and colonialism: a study of Gita Mehta’s Raj/K.C. Baral and Dhira Bhowmick. 5. Six hundred and thirty-five day long midnight : Rushdie’s representation of Indira Gandhi’s emergency/K. Purushottham. 6. Ethnopoetics: cultural fictions in Kavery Nambisan’s the scent of pepper/Pramod K. Nayar. 7. Ruskin bond as children’s writer/Ragini Ramachandra. 8. The new symbols of colonial India/R. Veena. 9. Theodore dreiser and American dream/l. Jeganatha Raja. 10. Kamala Markandaya’s the golden honeycomb as a postcolonial novel/M.A. Jeyaraju and D. Miruthula. 11. Hero as picaro: Farrukh Dhondy’s Bombay duck/V.L.V.N. Narendra Kumar. 12. Women in marriage: novels of Nayantara Sahgal and Shashi Deshpande/T. Ashoka Rani. 13. Man and destiny: a study of Arun Joshi’s the foreigner/R.A. Singh. 14. The treatment of Hinduism in Mrs. Sahgal’s a time to be happy this time of morning and strom in Chandigarh/M. Narendra. 15. The dialectics of self-assertion: the liberated woman in Shobha de’s sisters/E. Satyanarayana. 16. The manifold use of simile in Arundhati Roy’s The God of small things/P. Hari Padma Rani. 17. Commonwealth or uncommonwealth-quarrels over naming the new literature/S. Krishna Sarma.