An Introduction to Indian writing in English.pptx

A Study of Indian Writing in English

1. GOVERNMENT
ARTS COLLEGE
VALLBHIPUR

duction to Indian
in English, The
ince in India

CHAVDA KHUSHALI

2. Introduction

© 31% 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.

3. 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

e English language and literature was introduced for the

first time in India as a part of curriculum at Presidency
college Calcutta

4. Introduction

+ It enhanced English literature
Earlier Indian mythology translated

+ Kalidasa's Shakuntala was translated in English by Sir
William Jones

5. Raja Ram Mohan Roy

+ Supported western education
+ Worked for East India Company from 1804 to 181

+ Started Hindu college on 28% January 1817 to promote
English

+ Founded a school in Suripara near Calcutta

+ Founded another school called Anglo-Hindu school in
1822

6. Indo-Anglian Literature

e 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

7. 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

e Ruth Prawar Jhabwala- Poland

8. 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

9. Early Indo-Anglican Literature
+ Rabindranath Tagore-
© Gitanjali received noble prize for literature

e Drama- Poetic drama-The Post office, Chitra
+ Novel-The Wreck, Gora

10. 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

11. Early Indian writing in English
+ Harindranath Chattopadhyaya-

+ Kashiprasad Ghosh

e Krishna Mohan Banerji

+ Three great novelist-Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand, R.K.
Narayan

12. Literature after Independence

e Nissim Ezekiel-poet
+ Dom Mores

+ AK Ramanujan

+ R. Parthasarthy

+ Keki Daruwala

e Kamla Das

e Jayant Mahapatra

+ Shiv Kumar

13. Themes in Modern poetry

° Theme of alienation
+ Eunice Desouza

e Nissim Ezekiel

+ Dom Mores

© Gieve Patel