A History of the Indian Novel in English

Ulka Anjaria is Associate Professor of English at Brandeis University, Massachusetts. She is the author of Realism in the Twentieth-Century Indian Novel: Colonial Difference and Literary Form (Cambridge, 2012), and has published in such journals as South Asian Popular Culture, NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, and Economic and Political Weekly. She is the recipient of an ACLS/Charles A. Ryskamp fellowship in 2014 for her current book project on realism in contemporary Indian literature, film, and television.

1. Beginnings: Rajmohan's Wife and the novel in India Supriya Chaudhuri; 2. The epistemic work of literary realism: two novels from colonial India Satya P. Mohanty; 3. 'Because novels are true, and histories are false': Indian women writing fiction in English, 1860–1918 Barnita Bagchi; 4. When the pen was a sword: the radical career of the progressive novel in India Snehal Shingavi; 5. The road less travelled: modernity and Gandhianism in the Indian English novel Rumina Sethi; 6. The modernist novel in India: paradigms and practices Vinay Dharwadker; 7. Handcuffed to history: partition and the Indian novel in English Ananya Jahanara Kabir; 8. Women, reform, and nationalism in three novels of Muslim life Suvir Kaul; 9. Found in translation: self, caste, and other in three modern texts Rashmi Sadana; 10. Emergency fictions Ayelet Ben-Yishai and Eitan Bar-Yosef; 11. Cosmopolitanism and the sonic imaginary in Salman Rushdie Vijay Mishra; 12. Postcolonial realism in the novels of Rohinton Mistry Eli Park Sorensen; 13. Far from the nation, closer to home: privacy, domesticity, and regionalism in Indian English fiction Saikat Majumdar; 14. Ecologies of intimacy: gender, sexuality, and environment in Indian fiction Kavita Daiya; 15. 'Some uses of history': historiography, politics, and the Indian novel Alex Tickell; 16. Virtue, virtuosity, and the virtual: experiments in the contemporary Indian English novel Rukmini Bhaya Nair; 17. Of dystopias and deliriums: the millennial novel in India Mrinalini Chakravorty; 18. 'Which colony? Which block?': Violence, (post-) colonial urban planning, and the Indian novel Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee; 19. Post-humanitarianism and the Indian novel in English Shameem Black; 20. Chetan Bhagat: remaking the novel in India Priya Joshi; 21. 'New India/n woman': agency and identity in post-millennial chick lit E. Dawson Varughese; 22. The politics and art of Indian English fantasy fiction Tabish Khair and Sébastien Doubinsky; 23. The graphic novel in India Corey K. Creekmur; 24. 'Coming to a multiplex near you': Indian fiction in English and new Bollywood cinema Sangita Gopal; 25. Caste, complicity, and the contemporary Toral Jatin Gajarawala.