The Book : This volume surveys the astonishing flowering of Indian Writing in English during the last two decades. After a brief but trenchant analysis of the milieu, it examines the literary productions in the genres of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictional prose. The range of this study is comprehensive, almost encyclopaedic, the style lively and jargon-free, and the critical enquiry perceptive and succinct, followed by an exhaustive bibliography of secondary sources. A sequel to A History of Indian English Literature (1982) by M.K. Naik, this study is jointly authored by him and Shyamala A. Narayan. It should hopefully prove as indispensable to both scholars and common readers of Indian Writing in English as did its widely acclaimed predecessor.

The Authors : M.K. Naik, former Professor and Chairperson of the Department of English at Karnatak University, Dharwad, currently lives in Pune. Apart from his widely acknowledged book: A History of Indian English Literature (1982, currently in its sixth edition), and several other publications, he has recently co-authored (with Shyamala A. Narayan) the landmark volume Indian English Literature (1980-2000): A Critical Survey (2004).

Shyamala A. Narayan (b. 1947), Reader in the Department of English at Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, is the author of Raja Rao: The Man and His Work (1998) and Sudhin N. Ghose (1973), and has edited an anthology fpr sahitya akademi, Non-Fictional Indian Prose in English 1060-1990.