India has often been at the centre of debates on and definitions of the postcolonial condition. Offering a challenging new direction for the field, this Critica

This book critically examines the postcolonial canon, questioning both the disproportionate attention to texts written in English and their overuse in attempts

An interdisciplinary, engaging book which looks at the nature of Indian society since Independence. By focusing on the Doon school, a famous boarding school in

Indian writers of English such as G. V. Desani, Salman Rushdie, Amit Chaudhuri, Amitav Ghosh, Vikram Seth, Allan Sealy, Shashi Tharoor, Arundhati Roy, Vikram Ch

This book argues that modernity in postcolonial India has been synonymous with catastrophe and crisis. Focusing on the literary works of the 1943 Bengal Famine,