Studies in Contemporary Indian English Prose

Indian English prose has been successful in capturing the attention of writers of essays and reviews, of pamphlets and journals, of educational tracts and literary critical pieces, of biographies and autobiographies, of short stories and novels. During the days of the Indian Renaissance (1820-1900), Indian English Prose received an unprecedented impetus, and various thinkers, educationists, journalists and reformers raised some burring issues of the day. The lead provided by Raja Ram Mohan Roy was remarkably backed up by Ram Gopal Ghose, Keshab Chandra Sen, M.G. Ranade, B.G. Tilak, G.K. Gokhale, Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekanand, Sri Aurbindo, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, S. Radhakrishnan, Raghunathan, Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Ved Mehta and many others.

The present critical anthology consists of some fourteen essays and papers written by thoughtful scholars. Some of the Literary luminaries mentioned above and their texts have been minutely examined in it. This critical anthology will, hopefully, prove useful to teachers, students and researchers alike.

Born in 1943 and educated at the University of Allahabad, Amar Nath Dwivedi has taught graduate and post-graduate classes since 1965, lastly at the University of Allahabad, where he was a professor in English. Presently Dr. Dwivedi is Senior Consultant in English at U.P. Rajarshi Tandon Open University, Allahabad. A recipient of the state Bursary for four years (1961-1965), he was awarded a Teacher's Research Grant by the ASRC (Hyderabad) in 1972. He was conferred the Ph.D degree in 1975 for his dissertation" Indian Thought and Tradition in T.S. Eliot's Poetry", which was later published in both India and Austria with a Foreword by Professor Grover Smith of the Duke University, U.S.A. Dr. Dwivedi has published about a dozen books and seventy-five research papers and serious articles. His papers and articles have appeared in such prestigious journals and periodicals as WLWE (U.S.A.), Explicator (U.S.A.), JSAL (U.S.A.), WLT (U.S.A.), Review Journal (Australia), The Aryan Path, Indian Literature, The Banasthali Patrika, Indian Journal of American Studies and New Literary Horizons. His translation of Hindi poetry have appeared in Voices of Emergency, edited by Professor John O. Perry, 1982, and in The Poetry of R.L. Khandelwal 'Tarun', 1991. Dr. Dwivedi is listed in the International Who's Who of Contemporary Achievement of Cambridgeshire, England. He has participated in many national seminars and conferences and has delivered talks and recited his poems in English over the All India Radio. He is on the board of advisors for the Literary journals The Quest, The Vedic Path, Wings, The Explorer and Canopy, and is the General Editor of the Indian Writers Series for BRPC, Delhi.

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