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Indian literature

Joshi, Priya. In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India. Columbia University Press, 2002. Examines the impact of the English novel on writers and readers in India.

Mukherjee, Meenakshi. The Perishable Empire: Essays on Indian Writing in English. Oxford University Press, 2000. The history of the novel in India.

Natarajan, Nalini, ed. Handbook of Twentieth-Century Literatures of India. Greenwood, 1996. Well-selected essays cover the regional literatures of modern India.

Rushdie, Salman, and Elizabeth West, eds. Mirrorwork: 50 Years of Indian Writing, 1947-1997. Henry Holt, 1997. Introduction to poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by English-language writers affiliated with India.

Tharu, Susie J., and Ke Lalita, eds. Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the Present. Feminist Press, 1991. Extensive anthology of women authors.

Verma, K. D. The Indian Imagination: Critical Essays on Indian Writing in English. Palgrave, 2000. Focuses on literary developments in India's colonial and postcolonial periods.

Winternitz, Maurice. A History of Indian Literature. 2nd ed. 2 vols. South Asia, 1981-1988. Classic, comprehensive study of secular and religious prose and poetry; first published 1927.

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