This book investigates what happens to the English language when it seeks to accommodate India and what happens to India when it is accommodated within the language of a far-off European country. It explores the work of writers from Kipling to Salman Rushdie, Ghandhi to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

Introduction - The English Indian Novel: Kim and Midnight's Children - The Indian English Novel: Nations of Fools and The Man-Eater of Malgudi - Riding the Beast: Ruther Prawer Jhabvala in India - The Quiet and the Loud: Anita Desai's India - The Politics of R.K.Narayan - Indian Trains - Indian Fugues - An Area of Darkness - Indian Autobiography - Sex in the Indian Novel - The Hill of Devi and Heat and Dust - A Passage to India - References - Notes - Index