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Topics to cover: ENGLISH IN INDIA
Important Books
→ The Travels of Dean Mohammad (first book ever published & written by an Indian
author)
→ Bharatvarsher Itihas (1931)
→ The Bengal Atlas
→ The Persecuted by Krishna Mohan Banerjee
→ A Journal of 48 hours of the year 1945 by
Kylas Chunder Dutt
→ Padmini Uparhyan by Rangalal
Banerjee (1858)
→ Anand Math by Bankim Chandra
Chattopadhyay
→ Indulekha by 0. Chandu Menon (1889). The book came out of Menon's attempt at
translating Benjamin Disraeli's
Henrietta Temple.
→ The Trotter Nama by Allan Sealy
→ confessions of a Marathi writer by Vilas Sarang
→ Kosla by Nemade
→ The Fakeer of Jangheera (1828)
→ Dutt family album (1870)
→ Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan by James Todd
→ Theatre of the Hindus by H. H. Wilson
→ Sarasvatichandra
→ The Intellectual in India (1967)
→ Long, Long Days by P. M. Nityanadan
→ women waiting in India by Susie Tharu and K. Lalita
→ Modern Indian Poetry in English edited by
P. Lal
Important Writers & Poets
→ A. K. Ramanujan
→ Nirad C. Chaudhari
→ Raja Rammohan Roy
→ Toru Dutt
→ R. K. Narayan
→ Henry Derozio
→ Braj Mohan Majumdar
→ Paul Johnson
→ Michael Madhusudan Dutt
→ Rudyard Kipling (Eliot called Kipling the first citizen of India)
→ Behramji Malabari
→ Govardhan Tripathi
→ Meenakshi Mukherjee
→ Bharati Mukherjee
→ Rabindranath Tagore
→ Sri Aurobindo
→ Cornelia Sorabji
→ Sarojini Naidu
→ Valji Desai (translated Satyagraha)
→ Verrier Elwin
→ Premchand
→ K. S. Venkataramani
→ Bhabani Bhattacharya
→ K. Nagarjuna
→ Aamir Ali
→ K. A. Abbas
→ Bharati Sarabhai
→ G. V. Desani
→ Rajarao
→ Khushwant Singh
→ Ruskin Bond
→ Arun Joshi
→ Kamala Markandaya
→ Nayantara Sehgal
→ Kiran Desai
→ Anita Desai
→ Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
→ V. S. Naipaul
→ Keki N. Daruwalla
→ Ezekiel
→ Dom Moraes
→ Kamala Das
→ Pritish Nandy
→ Arun Kolatkar
→ Shiv K. Kumar
→ Dilip Chitre
→ Jayanta Mahapatra
→ R. Parthasarathy
→ Imtiaz Dharkar
→ Seepersad Naipaul
→ G. Vassanji
→ Rohinton Mistry
→ Amitav Ghosh
→ Arundhati Roy
→ Agha Shahid Ali
→ Salman Rushdie
→ Kiran Nagarkar
→ Upmanyu Chatterjee
→ Sashi Tharoor
→ Vikram Chandra
→ Asif Currimboy
→ Gieve Patel
→ Cyrus Mistry
→ Dina Mehta
→ Mahesh Dattani