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	Indian English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Indian English refers to the dialects or varieties of English spoken primarily in India and the Indian subcontinent, and also by Indian diaspora elsewhere in the world.
		American English, due to the burgeoning influence of American pop culture on the rest of the world, has begun challenging traditional British English as the premier brand of English spoken in the Indian subcontinent, though this is largely limited to the youth in the last decade or two.
		Indian schools still teach grammar from (frequently older) British textbooks like Wren and Martin or J. Nesfield (1898): the grammar of higher British English is considered the only correct one.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indian_English (3248 words)

	Encyclopedia: Indian writing in English
		Indian English is a catch-all phrase for the dialects or varieties of English spoken widely in India (by about 11% of the population as a first language.
		Indian English writers and English writers of Indian origin â“ notably Booker Prize winners Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy and Pultizer Prize Winner Jhumpa Lahiri â“ have in addition made creative use of more stereotypical Indian English through the mouths of characters in their works.
		Indian writing in English (IWE) refers to the body of work by writers in India who write in the English language and whose mother tongue is usually one of the numerous languages of India.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Indian-writing-in-English (1397 words)

	Indian writing in English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Indian English Literature (IEL) refers to the body of work by writers in India who write in the English language and whose mother tongue is usually one of the numerous languages of India.
		He used a hybrid language – English generously peppered with Indian terms – to convey a theme that could be seen as representing the vast canvas of India.
		The renowned writer V.S. Naipaul, a third generation Indian from Trinidad and Tobago and a Nobel prize laureate, is a person who belongs to the world and usually not classified under IWE.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indian_writing_in_English (1369 words)

	Indian English Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Indeed, according to the words of an Indian critic Iyengar three decades ago, quoted by Kachru, there seems to be an acceptance of Indian English literature as "one of the voices in which India speaks...it is a new voice, no doubt, but it is as much Indian as the others" (Kachru 1994:528-529).
		The integrity of the writers writing in English is often suspect in their own country, and in other English-speaking countries they are treated as marginal to the mainstream of English literature (Kachru 1986b:19).
		Indian English writers are sometimes accused of abandoning the national or regional language and writing in a western, "foreign", language; their commitment to the nation is considered suspect.
	www.scholars.nus.edu.sg /landow/post/india/hohenthal/5.4.html (536 words)

	Indian Writing in English: Counterrealism as Alternative Literary History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		He identifies the project of writing in the English language as the cultural voice of a particular class, its power in postcolonial India, and its capitulation to the hegemonic effects of colonialism in the country.
		English writing, from this perspective, reflects the voice of the colonizer, the vision of Prospero masquerading as the story of Caliban.
		And it is hardly surprising that the mantle of Anglo-Indian writing fell on Indian writing in English.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/693/693_kanaganayakam.html (7936 words)

	Indian Writing in English
		The English language in India carries with it a connotation of elitism, as opposed to native languages which are seen as being down to earth, belonging to the people proper.
		And when the IWE writer's Indian characters all talk and think in English, he is asking the reader for another indulgence, for a higher degree of suspension of disbelief.
		English readership consequently, would be a fraction of that pretty small number, and English writers a fraction of that fraction.
	indianwritinginenglish.blogspot.com (5773 words)

	Learn more about Indian writing in English in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		It is also associated with the works of members of the Indian diaspora,especially people like Salman Rushdie who were born in India.
		He is usually categorised under the magic realism mode of writing most famously associated with Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
		Indian English Literature by Annika Hohenthal, of the University of Turku, Finland
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /i/in/indian_writing_in_english.html (1141 words)

	Encyclopedia article: Indian writing in English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Similar to Thomas Hardy (English novelist and poet (1840-1928)) 's Wessex (A Saxon kingdom in southwestern England that became the most powerful English kingdom by the 10th century), Narayan created the fictitious town of Malgudi (additional info and facts about Malgudi) where he set his novels.
		Being a self-confessed fan of Jane Austen (English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle-class families (1775-1817)), his attention is on the story, its details and its twists and turns.
		Tagore wrote in English and Bengali and was responsible for the translations of his own work into English.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/in/indian_writing_in_english.htm (1361 words)

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		Absent from this gathering of sixty-two Indian authors and literary critics, Salman Rushdie wrote as the "newest of New Yorkers" as official body counts rose to 2,825: "To this bright capital of the visible, the forces of invisibility have dealt a blow.
		Indian writing in English, or IWE (a traditional literary-critical category that hegemonically references all South Asian writing in English), occupied pride of place at the festival with international stalwarts like V. Naipaul, Amitav Ghosh, Rohinton Mistry, Amit Chauduri, and Vikram Seth rubbing shoulders with regional giants like U. Anathamurthy and Sunil Gangopadhyay.
		Hence I propose discrimination in exploring the very category of Indian writers in English, where all writers, regardless of modality of their literary practice or their political and ethical imperatives, are herded together and become indistinguishable from each other.
	rutgerspress.rutgers.edu /Author/Ghosh/excerpt.html (1136 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 86 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		An Indian writing poetry in English was an exile in his own country.
		Since one was writing in English it should be all the more evident that it was an Indian writing.
		The Indian way of speaking English is to mix the languages -- half a sentence in English and the other tattered half in Hindi or Marathi or Bengali.
	www.thedailystar.net /2004/08/21/d408212102104.htm (1665 words)

	The Hindu : A niche for Indian writing in France
		Indian publishers rarely if ever frequent the Paris Book Fair, unless they can expressly combine it with the London Fair that is held during the same period.
		For the first time Indian writers and their writing will be presented to the French- speaking public not only in France but in the neighbouring French-speaking countries as well.
		For languages for which good translators are hard to come by, the solution would be to opt for indirect translations via English, which though far from the ideal solution, would at least have the merit of avoiding the pitfalls of an inadequate translation while representing Indian writing to the largest possible extent.
	www.hindu.com /2001/05/20/stories/1320017i.htm (1020 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		LEGACIES OF At readings by Indian writers in English, two related questions, or some version of them, will invariably be asked by a member of the audience, whatever the setting — bookshop, university seminar or literary festival.
		Ever since the politics of representation, rather than the definition of literary practice, became a principal preoccupation of literary departments, we’ve been left with one or two tired moral gestures in lieu of a robust and ongoing discussion of, and enquiry into, what it is we’re making those gestures on behalf of.
		English, then, is part of the problem; the act of writing in English was, in India, potentially an act of bad faith, and a residue of the old suspicion regarding the motives of those who write in English remains and is still at work among us.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1050501/asp/opinion/story_4683708.asp (589 words)

	On the Spanish Translation of 'Love and Longing in Bombay'
		One manifestation of Indian English is the literary phenomenon known as Indian Writing in English.
		An Indian text written in English is a reflection of an unequal power-relation between systems: a novel is produced for both the national and international market in view, inter alia, of its greater saleability and higher profile if written in English rather than an Indian language, thanks to the greater power and prestige of English.
		Indian English still bears the colonial imprint as much as does Indian society, and, still in the first story, some of the challenges to translator and reader actually arise from Britishisms and, therefore, the original's transcultural status.
	www.seikilos.com.ar /LoveAndLonging.html (6538 words)

	Omnium Gatherum: Indians writing in English
		Write in English or in any bloomin' language you want but don't give me that koyal coo-oo stuff unless you got something fresh to say.
		Hardly any Indian English author has tried to capture this, save, perhaps, Desani and his Hatterr (that was in the 40's though!).
		Indian authors in English grow up on a wealth of Western literature and the styles are often imitative and in someone else's language.
	ogsandends.blogspot.com /2005/02/indians-writing-in-english.html (1843 words)

	Amit Chaudhari
		The earliest Indian writers in English were poets and they wrote in a time when there was no category such as 'Indian writing in English'.
		The first important Indian writer in English, too, is a poet, Toru Dutt (1856-77); a handful of English poems testify to her position at the source of this tradition that is not quite a tradition.
		At a time when Indian writing in English is seen to be largely synonymous with fiction, and fiction with the novel, it is worth remembering this figure.
	www.rigzin.freeservers.com /amit.htm (814 words)

	News India-Times.com, Online Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The festival was inaugurated by Vajpayee in the presence of over 60 Indian and international writers and critics, as well as a host of political dignitaries.
		Admitting that he was proud of the success of Indian writers in English, Vajpayee, however, said on a more somber note, “I am filled with despair when I think of the problems of literary writing in other languages in India.
		He said Bollywood, which produces nearly 1,000 films a year, many of which are lighthearted musicals, did not reflect reality and was “concealing the truth.” Indian writing, in both English and the languages, has given India an identity which Indian cinema, being operatic, could not give, he added.
	www.newsindia-times.com /2002/03/01/tow-24-top.html (1196 words)

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		The corpus of Indian writing in English has reached such monumental proportions over the last two decades that it is nearly impossible to recount the names and works of all writers.
		Besides the impetus provided by the publishing industry and a readership of an expanding English-speaking middle-class, the reception of Indian writing in English as an area of importance is related to the rise of postcolonial studies in the West over the last two decades.
		For even as their writings provide several windows to the social, political, personal and feminist concerns, such concerns may be limited to a certain class to which the writers themselves belong.
	www.himalmag.com /99Aug/indo.htm (2152 words)

	Indian Writing in English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Due to the peculiar currency of English in India, several works of fiction have been written by Indians in that language.
		I currently maintain, as net neophytes tend to do, profiles of some contemporary authors who are "Indian" (whatever that means) and write in English.
		There are also numerous Indian authors and poets who write in their native tongue and who have been translated into English.
	www.iit.edu /~jainank/reading/db/indian.literature.html (154 words)

	R K SINGH, POET & ELT TEACHER
		Writing Academic English (by A. Oshima and A. Hogue).
		The Waffle of the Toffs: A Sociocultural Critique of Indian Writing in English (by M. Prabha).
		Indian English Literature in Uttar Pradesh, Canopy, March-May 1988.
	www.geocities.com /profrksingh/RKSINGH.html (7767 words)

	Duck of Destiny: IWE Spats: Tehelka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Which is why Dalrymple’s piece, where he dismisses all post-Arundhati-Roy Indian resident writers and points to the diaspora as the last brown hope, was a chilling reminder that anyone participating in the Great Indian Writing in English debate clearly has too much time on his or her hands.
		As far as writing in English is concerned, not one of the Indian literary A-list actually lives in India, except Roy…It is not just that the diaspora tail is wagging the Indian dog.
		The problem of Indian writers finding acceptance abroad is not really a problem - and neither does it reflect on the quality of Indian writing, but maybe, something fundamental - heteroglossia, a term linguists use to identify the role of context in understanding text, makes all the difference.
	samitbasu.blogspot.com /2005/09/iwe-spats-tehelka.html (2478 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 4 Num 223 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		It is easy to make poems that are urged by sporadic, individual responses to things--to write a poem on the potato I mentioned earlier; but perhaps to seek an insight into the potato's mind that is haunted by the sinister density of the earth.
		Every poet seeks to accomplish something like this in the poems he or she writes, or else he or she would not be able to write at all.
		My own writing has always reflected an Oriya sensibility and I have felt myself to be an Oriya poet who happened to write in English.
	www.thedailystar.net /2004/01/10/d40110210288.htm (2217 words)

	IndiaStar bookreview: The Vintage Book of Indian Writing, 1947-1997
		Rushdie explains the omission by arguing that there are no decent translations in English of Indian authors writing in their native languages.
		The only work written in an Indian language included in this anthology is Saadat Hasan Manto's short story "Toba Tek Singh." This story focuses on the turbulence generated by the announcement in a Lahore lunatic asylum of the upcoming transfer of Sikh and Hindu inmates to India.
		The distress of the inmates is skillfully shown by Manto and higlights the absurdity of the partition.
	www.indiastar.com /manjeet.html (858 words)

	T. Ravichandran: Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Presented a paper on “Food, Family, Culture and Power Structure in Anita Desai’s Fasting, Feasting” in the National Seminar on “Familial Relations and Society in Contemporary Indian Writing in English” organized by the Department of English, DAV College, Kanpur, held from February 17 to 18, 2005.
		Participated in the Seminar on Major Trends in Modern English Poetry at the Department of English, Abeda Inamdar Senior College for Girls, Pune on 21 February 1998.
		Writing and Publication, The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kanpur.
	home.iitk.ac.in /~trc (1621 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Literature: World Literature: Indian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Indian women’s writing - A world of words, lost and found: a brief overview of women’s literature in India from the 6th century BC onwards.
		Literature by South Asian Writers Writing in English - This is actually one long page, but it has a listing for quite a few authors along with bibliography.
		Margaret Mascarenhas - Margaret Mascarenhas is a columnist, editor, creative writing teacher, and the author of the novel, Skin (Penguin 2001).
	dmoz.org /Arts/Literature/World_Literature/Indian (577 words)

	DesiJournal.com - Away: The Indian Writer as an Expatriate by Amitava Kumar
		While most of us are familiar with more recent writings by authors such as Rohinton Mistry, Bharati Mukherjee, and Salman Rushdie, the true finds in Away are the writings by the earliest expatriates: Dean Mahomed, a Patna-born businessman who traveled to Ireland and England in the 1820’s and opened shampooing parlors that boasted medicinal properties.
		This piece is of interest primarily because of its archaic language and its place as one of the first writings by Indians living abroad.
		Yet, even in many writings by such émigrés, the invariable setting of the writing still seems to be the homeland.
	www.desijournal.com /book.asp?articleid=94 (888 words)

	Main Page - Ramesh Mahadevan's Home Page
		You are also that new bride who migrates to New Jersey and haunts the Indian stores in search of the latest Amitabh movie and curry leaves.
		And one of your children, bless their cute American accents, will also go on to record the outgoing message on your answering machine.
		Some of you may remember that several of these articles first appeared circa 1988, on the Soc.Culture.Indian bulletin board, a precursor to today's desi Internet forums.
	mahadevanramesh.com (564 words)

	Paritosh Uttam: Indian Writing in English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		You can find a brief excerpt from the novel on the WRITING page along with a selection of my short stories.
		The Indian Writers section is about the writers responsible for that body of literature popularly known as Indian Writing in English.
		Since writing and reading are irrevocably linked, I have listed the kind of reading that interests me, and have indulged in, on the READING page.
	www.paritoshuttam.com (148 words)

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