Indian Literature in English

Longman Literature in English Series

by William Walsh

Based on the relationship existing between India and Britain for over 200 years, this book looks at the position of the English language in Indian literature. During British rule, English became the language of higher education and the lingua franca of intellectual, administrative and political life. It has continued to be so, sometimes in the face of stiff and natural opposition since independence in 1947.

219 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

William Walsh is the author of The Poems and The Poets (both from Erratum Press), Forty-five American Boys (Outpost19), ON TV, Unknown Arts, Ampersand, Mass., Pathologies, Questionstruck, Stephen King Stephen King (all from Keyhole Press), and Without Wax: A Documentary Novel (Casperian Books).

His work has appeared in Annalemma, Artifice, Quick Fiction,, New York Tyrant, Caketrain, Juked, LIT, Rosebud, Quarterly West, Crescent Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, as well as anthologies like The &NOW Anthology: Best of Innovative Writing, Dzanc's Best of the Web, and New Micro: Norton Anthology of Exceptionally Short Fiction.