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Includes alphabetically arranged entries on more than 50 South Asian novelists writing in English, with each entry providing biographical, critical, and bibliographical information.

Table of Contents

Introduction Meena Alexander by Lavina Shankar Mulk Raj Anand by Rochelle Almeida Anjana Appachana by Lara Kattekola Jean Arasanayagam by Chelva Kanaganayakam Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni by Lavina Shankar Vikram Chandra by Doug Payne Upamanyu Chatterjee by Rochelle Almeida Amit Chaudhuri by Purvi Shah Nirad Chaudhuri by Pallavi Rastogi Kamala Das by Manju Jaidka Anita Desai by P. S. Chauhan Shashi Deshpande by Josna Rege Farukh Dhondy by Sangeeta Mediratta Indira Ganesan by Sangeeta Mediratta Zulfikar Ghose byWaqas Ahmad Khwaja Amitav Ghosh by Bakirathi Mani Yasmine Gooneratne by Walter Perera James Goonewardene by Nihal Fernando Romesh Gunasekera by Gautam Kundu Sunetra Gupta by Vijaylaxmi Chauhan Kaizad Gustad by Jigna Desai Mohsin Hamid by Waqas Ahmad Khwaja Githa Hiraharan by Meenakshi Bharat Raj Kamak Jha by Pallavi Rastogi Firdaus Kanga by John Hawley Manju Kapur by Pallavi Rastogi Mukul Kesavan by Padmaja Challake Adib Khan by Rebecca Sultana Chandani Lokuge by Walter Perera Manohar Malhaonkar by Janet Powers Kamala Markandaya by Hena Ahmad Gita Mehta by P. S. Chauhan Ved Mehta by Sujata Iyengar Pankaj Mishra by Rahul Gairola Rohinton Mistry by Tess Chakkalakal Bharati Mukherjee by Kellie Hozler Kiran Nagarkar by Niti Sampat-Patel Suniti Namjoshi by Harveen Mann Kirin Narayan by Grant Farred R. K. Narayan by John Lanagan Michael Ondaatje by Anthony Guneratne Victor Rangel-Ribeiro by Gita Rajan Raja Rao by Janet Powers Arundhati Roy by Emmanuel Nelson Salman Rushdie by Michael Reder Nayantara Sahgal by Jill Didur I. Allan Sealy by Manju Jaidka Shyam Selvadurai by Emmanuel Nelson Vikram Seth by Anthony Guneratne Bulbul Sharma by Natasha Vashisht Bapsi Sidhwa by Feroza Jussawalla Kushwant Singh by Doug Payne Sara Suleri by Ambreen Hai Manil Suri by Kellie Holzer Shashi Tharoor by Gita Rajan Ardashir Vakil by John Hawley M. G. Vassanji by Marian Aguiar Selected Bibliography Index

About the Author

JAINA C. SANGA is Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of General Education at Southern Methodist University. Her previous books include Salman Rushdie's Postcolonial Metaphors (Greenwood, 2001).

Reviews

?[a]n outstanding reference work, forging new paths of perception and appreciation of South Asian writing in English.?-Reference Reviews

?[A] single-volume compilation of English-writing South Asian novelists is a convenient research tool and should also prove useful in collection development. Suitable for large public libraries and academic libaries.?-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin

?This is a must-have for students and scholars of South Asian writings in English and South Asian history and culture.?-Multicultural Review

"Ýa¨n outstanding reference work, forging new paths of perception and appreciation of South Asian writing in English."-Reference Reviews

"ÝA¨ single-volume compilation of English-writing South Asian novelists is a convenient research tool and should also prove useful in collection development. Suitable for large public libraries and academic libaries."-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin

"[a]n outstanding reference work, forging new paths of perception and appreciation of South Asian writing in English."-Reference Reviews

"This is a must-have for students and scholars of South Asian writings in English and South Asian history and culture."-Multicultural Review

"[A] single-volume compilation of English-writing South Asian novelists is a convenient research tool and should also prove useful in collection development. Suitable for large public libraries and academic libaries."-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin