Commencing from Mulk Raj Anand, R. K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Sarojini Naidu, Toru Dutt to Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, Allan Sealy, Amitav Ghosh, Jhumpa Lahiri, Chitra Banerjee, Arundhati Roy, Vikram Chandra - the panache of fine Indian writers is long and much augmented.
Development of Indian English Literature
Indian English Literature precisely conforming to its gradual evolution had all begun in the summers of 1608 when Emperor Jahangir, in the court of the Mughals, had welcomed Captain William Hawkins, Commander of British Naval Expedition Hector, in a gallant manner. Though India was under the British rule, still, English was adopted by the Indians as a language of understanding and awareness, education and literary expression with an important means of communication amongst various people of dissimilar religions.
History of Indian English Literature
Indian English Literature dates back to two centuries. “The Travels of Dean Mahomet” by Sake Dean Mahomed and published in England in 1794 is the first book written by an Indian in English. Early Indian writers used unadulterated English in Indian words and style to convey an experience which was essentially Indian. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is considered the first poet in the lineage of Indian English poetry followed by Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Sarojini Naidu, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, and Toru Dutt, among others. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay wrote “Rajmohan's Wife” and published it in 1864, making it the first Indian novel written in English. The novel earned tremendous admiration as one of the prominent Indian English novels. Bianca, or The Young Spanish Maiden (1878) by Toru Dutt was the first novel written by an Indian woman.
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