Contents

pp 5-6

Editors’ Preface

pp 7-8

Introduction

pp 9-26

Part I - Re-imagining the Nation

pp 27-28

1 - Re-writing India

pp 29-46

2 - Roots and Routes: On Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies

pp 47-58

3 - Revisiting Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide: The Islam/English Dynamic

pp 59-74

4 - Nation, ‘No-Nation’ and ‘Desh’: Post-Orientalism and the National Allegory in Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown and Vassanji’s The Assassin’s Song

pp 75-92

Part II - Revisiting the Past

pp 93-94

5 - Tributes or Travesties?: Recent Reworkings of Classics Great and Small

pp 95-110

6 - Of Art and the Artist: Kunal Basu’s The Miniaturist as a Mughal/Modern Novel

pp 111-126

Part III - Reviewing the Present

pp 127-128

7 - Babu Fiction in Disguise: Reading Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger

pp 129-144

8 - Indian English Women’s Fiction and the Fascination of the Everyday

pp 145-160

9 - Inspiring India: The Fiction of Chetan Bhagat and the Discourse of Motivation

pp 161-170

10 - Story-telling in the Age of Cybernetics: Rana Dasgupta’s Tokyo Cancelled

pp 171-188

11 - Childhood’s End: Science Fiction in India

pp 189-204

12 - Frame/Works: How India Tells Stories in Comics and Graphic Novels

pp 205-228

Part IV - Reinscribing Home

pp 229-230

13 - A Diasporic Straitjacket or an Overcoat of Many Colours?: A Reading of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake

pp 231-246

14 - The Mythos of Return and Recent Indian English: Diasporic Fiction

pp 247-258

About the Editors and Contributors

pp 259-264

References

pp 265-276

Index

pp 277-280

Publications Series

pp 281-283