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In recent years American readers have been thrilling to the work of such Indian writers as Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth. Now this extravagant and wonderfully discerning anthology unfurls the full diversity of Indian literature from the 1850s to the present, presenting today’s brightest talents in the company of their distinguished forbearers and likely heirs. The thirty-eight authors collected by novelist Amit Chaudhuri write not only in English but also in Hindi, Bengali, and Urdu. They inclu...
I can't claim to have read this anthology in its entirety - but I hold it as a valuable resource in my classroom, and this particular collection served my high-school students well in postcolonial literature projects. Chaudhuri excellently composes this collection to reflect varied linguistic, religious, literary/genre, and ethnic perspectives, adequately complexifying a contemporary, multiethnic nation.
So like the Granta book apparently, only more and better! Wow!
