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Prafulla
C. Kar
is Professor of English at the Maharaja
Sayajirao University of Baroda. He was Deputy
Director of the American Studies Research
Centre, Hyderabad during 1982-86, and Chair,
Department of English at Baroda during 1995-2000.
He visited Universities of Chicago, Taxas
at Austin, and California at Berkeley under
a Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship. He
was a Fellow at the School of Criticism
and Theory at Dartmouth College, USA in
1986. Besides editing several scholarly
books, he has published papers on American
literature, critical theories and new literatures
in English. He is one of the editors of
the Journal of Contemporary Thought,
Baroda.
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M.K.
Naik (b.1926),
former Professor and Chairperson of the
Department of English at Karnatak University,
Dharwad, currently lives in Pune (India)/Melbourne
(Australia). Apart from A History of Indian
English Literature (1982, currently in its
sixth edition), he has also published studies
on the 'Big Three' of Indian English fiction:
Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan and Raja Rao.
He has edited the Perspective Series, which
covers all the major forms of Indian
English Literature, and Critical Essays
on Indian Writing in English (1968). He
is the author of five books of light verse
under the nom de plume EMKEN. These include
Indian Clerihews, Indian Limericks and Beowulf
and All That:An Unorthodox History of English
Literature in Comic Verse.
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Brinda
Bose
studied English at Presidency College Calcutta,
and at Oxford before obtaining her Ph.d.
from Boston University. She teaches in the
Department of English, Hindu College, Delhi
University, and researches in postcolonial
literature and theory, and gender and cultural
studies. Her publications include critical
editions of Woolf's Mrs Dalloway (New Delhi:
Worldview, 2001) and Conrad's Heart of Darkness
(New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2001).
She is the co-editor of Interventions: Feminist
Dialogues in Third World Women's Literature
and Film (New York: Garland, 1997) and editor
of Translating Desire: The Politics of Gender
and Culture in India (New Delhi: Katha,
2002).
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C.D.
Narasimahaiah,
educated at the Universities of Mysore and
Cambridge, was Professor of English at the
University of Mysore from 1950 to 1979.
Reckefeller Fellow at Princeton (1949-50)
and Fulbright Visiting Lecturer at Yale
(1958-59), he was Visiting Professor at
several universities, including Leeds (U.K.),
Texas (U.S.A.), Queensland and Flinders
(Australia). He is currently Director, the
Library Criterion Centre for English Studies
and Indigenous Arts, Dhvanyaloka, Mysore.
Pioneer of American Literature studies in
India in the fifties and sixties and of
Commonwealth Literature studies in the seventies,
Professor Narasimhaiah has authored numerous
research articles and edited over a dozen
books published, among others, by Macmillan
and Oxford University Press. His major book-length
studies include The Swan and the Eagle,
Jawaharlal Nehru, Raja Rao, Writer's Gandhi,
Moving Frontiers of English Studies in India,
and Indian Critical Sence : Controversial
Essays. Professor Narasimahaiah was elected
(Global) Chairman, Association for Commonwealth
Literature (1974-77), and President, All
India English Teacher's Conference (989).
Awarded Padma Bhshan by the Government of
India in the year 1990, he ranks among the
most sensitive, bold, and distinguished
scholar-critics of India.
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K.Satchidanandan
(b.1946), eminent Malayaam poet and bilingual
critic, is currently Secretary of the Sahitya
Akademi (National Academy of Letters), New
Delhi.He has authored 18 collections of
poetry and 16 works of literary and social
theory and criticism in Malayalam.His works
in English include Summer Rain, How to Go
to the Tao Temple (translations of his own
poetry), Gestures (anthology of poetry from
South Asia,edited), Signatures(anthology
of 100 Indian poets,edited),and Under the
Wild Skies (anthology of short stories from
Malayalam,edited). A pioneer of modern Indian
poetry and literary criticism,Professor
Satchidanandan has won several awards and
honours including Kerala Sathitya Akademi
awards for prose and poetry, Shrikant Verma
Fellowship for poetry translation (adhya
Pradesh), Ulloor award, P. Kunhiraman Nair
award, Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad (Calcutta)
award for poetry,Oman Cultural Centre award
for total literary contribution and Senior
Fellowship from the Department of Culture,
Government of India. He has represented
India in several national and international
festivals of poetry and seminars including
the Festivals of India in USSR and China,the
Paris Biennale and Sarajevo Poetry Days.
He has also lectured and read his works
in several countries including USA and Sweden.
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Sisir
Kumar Das |
Indian
Ode to the West Wind: Studies in Literary
Encounters
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Sisir
Kumar Das, until recently Tagore Professor
at the Department of Modern Indian Languages
and Literary Studies in the University of
Delhi, is a poet, playwright and literary
critic of distinction. He is the author
of the two-volume study, A History of Indian
Literature; the first volume covering 1800-1910
is subtitled Western Impact: Indian Response
(1991), the second covering 1911-1956 on
Struggle for Freedom: Triumph and Tragedy
(1995(. His other books include the Mad
Lover: Essays on Medieval Religious Poerty
(1984) and Sahibs and Munshis: A History
of the College of Fort William (1976). He
has authored many well-known plays in Bengali:
Socrateser Jamanbandi, Adim Andhakar, Akbar
Birbal, Sinduk and Bagh.
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Jasbir
Jain |
CREATING
THEORY : Writers on Writing
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Jasbir
Jain is a formerly Professor of English,
University of Rajsthan, is currently K.K.
Birla Fellow of Comparative Literature engaged
in research on Contextualizing Modernism:
The Novel in India. Published extensively
in the discipline of cultural studies, she
is the editor of an ongoing series on Writer
of the Indian Diaspora.
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G.K.
Das |
Forster's
A Passage to India: An Anthology of Recent
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G.K.
Das who retired as Professor of English,
University of Delhi, after having served
as Vice Chancellor, Utkal University and
Director, University of Delhi, South Campus,
revisits the territory of Foster studies
to edit this anthology. His work on English
Romanticism and D.H. Lawrence notwithstanding,
Forster has remained a constant ever since
his doctoral research at Cambridge was published
as E.M. Forster's India.
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