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<p>The Making of Indian English Literature brings together seventeen well-researched essays of Subhendu Mund with a long introduction by the author historicising the development of the Indian writing in English while exploring its identity among the many appellations tagged to it. The volume demonstrates contrary to popular perceptions that before the official introduction of English education in India Indians had already tried their hands in nearly all forms of literature: poetry fiction drama essay biography autobiography book review literary criticism and travel writing. Besides translation activities Indians had also started editing and publishing periodicals in English before 1835. Through archival research the author brings to discussion a number of unknown and less discussed texts which contributed to the development of the genre. The work includes exclusive essays on such early poets and writers as Kylas Chunder Dutt Shoshee Chunder Dutt Toru Dutt Mirza Moorad Alee Beg Krupabai Satthianadhan Swami Vivekananda H. Dutt and Sita Chatterjee; and historiographical studies on the various aspects of the genre. The author also examines the strategies used by the early writers to indianise the western language and the form of the novel. The present volume also demonstrates how from the very beginning Indian writing in English had a subtle nationalist agenda and created a space for protest literature. The Making of Indian English Literature will prove an invaluable addition to the studies in Indian writing in English as a source of reference and motivation for further research. About the Author Subhendu Mund acclaimed for his seminal studies in early Indian writing in English is the author of The Indian Novel in English: Its Birth and Development (1997). He has edited scholarly reissues of Toru Dutt's Bianca: Or the Young Spanish Maiden (2001) and Shoshee Chunder Dutt's The Young Zemindar [and Other Fictional Works] (2017). Dr Mund is an Odia poet writer lexicographer and translator.</p>
