Picador book of modern Indian literature

Machine generated contents note: iv / Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION -- xvii / Modernity and the Vernacular -- xxiii / The Construction of the Indian Novel in English -- xxxii / A Note on the Selection -- THE BENGAL RENAISSANCE AND AFTER -- 3 / Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824-73) -- 5 / from The Anglo-Saxon and the Hindu' -- 7 / Two Letters -- 12 / Bankimchandra Chatterjee (1838-94) -- 13 / 'A Popular Literature for Bengal' -- 19 / The Confession of a Young Bengal' -- 24 / from Rajani -- 26 / Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) -- 29 / The Postmaster' -- 34 / Five Letters -- 39 / An Essay on Nursery Rhymes -- 42 / from the Introduction to ThakurmarJhuli -- 45 / Sukumar Ray (1887-1923) -- 46 / 'A Topsy-Turvy Tale' -- 66 / Bibhuti Bhushan Banerjee (1894-1950) -- 68 / from Pather Panchali -- 88 / Parashuram (Rajshekhar Basu) (1880-1960) -- 89 / Blue Star' -- 97 / The Jackal-Faced Tongs' -- 106 / Buddhadev Bose (1908-74) -- 107 / from Tithidore -- 114 / from An Acre of Green Grass: A Review of Modern -- Bengali Literature -- 122 / Mahashweta Devi (b. 1926) -- 123/ Arjun' -- HINDI -- 133 / Premdhand (Dhanpat Rai) (1880-1936) -- 134 / 'The Chess Players' -- 145 / Nirmal Verma (b. 1929) -- 146 / 'Terminal' -- 156 / Krishna Sobti (b. 1925) -- 157 / from Ai Ladki -- URDU -- 187 / Sadat Hasan Manto (1912-55) -- 188/ Peerun' -- 193 / The Black Shalwar -- 205 / Qurratulain Hyder (b. 1927) -- 206 / 'Memories of an Indian Childhood' -- 220 / Naiyer Masud (b. 1936) -- 221 / 'Sheesha Ghar -- THE SOUTH -- 239 / U. R. Anantha Murthy (b. 1932) -- 240 / A Horsefor the Sun' -- 266 / Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (c 1908-94) -- 267 / Walls' -- 290 / 0. V. Vijayan (b. 1930) -- 291 / The Rocks' -- 297 / Ambai (C. S. Lakshmi) (b. 1945) -- 298 / 'Gifts' -- PAGES FROM AUTOBIOGRAPHIES -- 309 / Fakir Mohan Senapati (1843-1918) -- 310 / from Story of My Life -- 330 / Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897-1998) -- 331 / from The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian -- 347 / Aubrey Menen (1912-89) -- 347 / from Dead Man in the Silver Market -- 355 / Pankaj Mishra (b. 1969) -- 356 / 'Edmund Wilson in Benares' -- ENGLISH -- 375 / R K. Narayan (b. 1907) -- 376 / from The English Teacher -- 397 / Raja Rao (b. 1908) -- 398 / from The Serpent and the Rope -- 414 / Ruskin Bond (b. 1934) -- 415 / The Night Train at Deoli' -- 419 / A. K Ramanujan (1929-93) -- 420 / Is There an Indian Way of Thinking? An Informal Essay' -- 438 / Dom Moraes (b. 1938) -- 439 / from Answered by Flutes -- 455 / Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (b. 1947) -- 456 / from The Emperor Has No Clothes' -- 478 / AdilJussawalla (b. 1940) -- 478 / 'Make Mine Movies' -- 484 / Salman Rushdie (b. 1947) -- 486 / from Midnights Children -- 508 / Vikram Seth (b. 1952) -- 509 / from The Golden Gate -- 538 / Amitav Ghosh (b. 1956) -- 538 / Tibetan Dinner' -- 542 / 'Four Corners' -- 547 / Upamanyu Chatterjee (b. 1959) -- 548 / from English, August: An Indian Story -- 563 / Vikram Chandra (b. 1961) -- 564 / 'Siege in Kailashpada' from a novel in progress -- 582 / Sunetra Gupta (b. 1965) -- 583 / from Memories of Rain -- 595 / Aamer Hussein (b. 1955) -- 596 / The Colour of a Loved Person's Eyes' -- 605 / Ashok Banker (b. 1964) -- 606 / from Vertigo -- 617 / Rohit Manchanda (b. 1963) -- 618 / from In the Light of the Black Sun -- 632 / Notes on Translators -- 635 / Permissions Acknowledgements.