Indian Writing in English Special Canon of literature

Indian Writing in English -Special Canon of literature Writing of Indian writers

Introduction � 31 st Dec. 1600 British East India Company established �Christian Missionaries settle in India �Schools and religion spread �Company promoted recruitments �Charles Grant resisted English Language in 1792 to solve the problem of communication gap.

Introduction �In 1835 English adopted as an official language �Lord Macaulay pleaded for English in school curriculum �Bengal region was progressive in English language usage �Raja Ram Mohan Roy-supported English �English language and literature was introduced for the first time in India as a part of curriculum at Presidency college Calcutta

Introduction �It enhanced English literature �Earlier Indian mythology translated �Kalidasa’s Shakuntala was translated in English by Sir William Jones

Raja Ram Mohan Roy �Supported western education �Worked for East India Company from 1804 to 1811 �Started Hindu college on 28 th January 1817 to promote English �Founded a school in Suripara near Calcutta �Founded another school called Anglo-Hindu school in 1822

Indo-Anglian Literature �Many terms for Indian writing in English �Indo-Anglian, Indo-Anglican or Anglo Indian literature �It concerns with original writing of Indian writers in English, not translation alone �E. F. Oaten- A Sketch of Anglo-Indian Literature (1908) describes the literature of Henry Derozio

Indo-Anglican Literature �V. K. Gokak- English in India: Its past and future (1964) coined the term Indo- Anglican literature �Writers belong to Indian origin -are Indian writers �Kipling, Forster are few British writers writing about India �Indian Diaspora- Indian origin- Naipaul, Bharati Mukherji, Jhumpa Lahiri, Salman Rushdie �Ruth Prawar Jhabwala- Poland

Early Indo-Anglican Literature �Henry Louis Vivian Derozio- (1809 -31) �Had Indo-Portuguese father and English mother �The Fakeer of Jungheera: a material tale and other poems (1828) �Toru Dutt-(1856 -77) �Binaca or the young Spanish maiden

Early Indo-Anglican Literature �Rabindranath Tagore�Gitanjali received noble prize for literature �Drama- Poetic drama-The Post office, Chitra �Novel-The Wreck, Gora

Early Indo-Anglican Literature �Sri Aurobindo- Yogi- Famous poet, dramatist �Savitri-epical poem, The divine Life-Spiritual poem �Sarojini Naidu-Nightingale of India-sensuous poems �The Golden Threshold

Early Indian writing in English �Harindranath Chattopadhyaya�Kashiprasad Ghosh �Krishna Mohan Banerji �Three great novelist-Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand, R. K. Narayan

Literature after Independence �Nissim Ezekiel-poet �Dom Mores �A K Ramanujan �R. Parthasarthy �Keki Daruwala �Kamla Das �Jayant Mahapatra �Shiv Kumar

Themes in Modern poetry �Theme of alienation �Eunice Desouza �Nissim Ezekiel �Dom Mores �Gieve Patel