English and Indian Literature

Introduction

Acknowledgements

I. Precolonial and Colonial Engagements

1. The 'Clever Wife' in All's Well That Ends Well and Two Indian Texts

2. John Stuart Mill's Views on the Teaching of English in India: A Reassessment from a Postcolonial Perspective

3. Tagore's Critique of the Alienation of Pure Art from the Human in Western Modernity

4. Sultana's Dream and Tagore's Nightmare: A Gender Perspective on Dreams for Social Change

5. 'The Comprehensiveness of Sympathy'-Gender and Species in Tagore

6. An Indian Judge, an English Gentlewoman, and India's Freedom Struggle

7. Five Approaches to A Passage to India

8. Interrogating History and Myth as Affirmative Strategies in L.H. Myers' The Near and the Far Tetralogy

II. Postcolonial Anxieties

9. Babasaheb Ambedkar: Scholar Extraordinaire

10. 'Rival Shakuntalas': Nehru, Jayaprakash Narayan and Shankar's India

11. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on Mahasweta Devi: A Critique

12. From Haripir to Haripur: Problems of Plurality in The Assassin's Song

13. For Pepper and Christ: The Dawn of India's Colonization

14. English Studies Then and Now: Some Personal Reflections

III. Literature at Large

15. Random Reflections on Literature and the Sacred

16. 'Poor Parsons' Daughters' in Jane Austen, the Brontes and Mrs. Gaskell

17. Christy Hero: The Evolution of the Playboy

18. The 'Strange God?': D.H. Lawrence's Quarrel with Christianity and T.S. Eliot

19. The 'Circumambient World': D.H. Lawrence and Environment

Notes on Contributors

Index