Beyond the Colonial Legacy : Indian Writing in English 1794-2004
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Indian writing in English began much before the establishment of the British colonial rule in India and has survived the collapse of the Empire. The resilience of Indian writing in English is largely due to the English education provided by the Christian missionaries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the nigh adaptability of the Indian mind to Western education. English was always seen as a language of the Indian elites, a language used not only to construct the Indian nationalist movement but also to deconstruct the hegemony of the Raj. In fact much of the muscular growth and modernization of the Indian vernacular languages, especially Bengali, in the nineteenth century was largely due to the dissemination of the English language amongst the elites, the Bengali bhadralok. It may be said that in the last two hundred years Indian writing in English has come of age. Indian writers have gained both the confidence and competence to express themselves in English thereby creating a typical and distinct idiom which is at once Indian and cosmopolitan. However the construction of national literatures in India has been a predominantly upper class project with clear ideological biases and intellectual predilections, which looked at literatures of a society rather selectively, at times ignoring Muslim, Anglo-Indian, Indian Christian or Parsee writers.1 The paper attempts to highlight some of the issues related to the development of Indian writing in English, the ideological biases, and the growth of a distinctively Indian literary culture.
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