A History of Indian Poetry in English (Hardcover)

1. The first Indian poet in English: Henry Louis Vivian Derozio Manu Samriti Chander; 2. English poetry in India: the early years Suvir Kaul; 3. From Albion's exile to India's prodigal son: the English poetry of Michael Madhusudan Datta (1824?73) Alexander Riddiford; 4. Transforming late Romanticism, transforming home: women poets in colonial India Mary Ellis Gibson; 5. The locations and dislocations of Toru and Aru Dutt Tricia Lootens; 6. Poetry of the everyday: comic verse in the nineteenth century Maire ni Fhlathuin; 7. Toru Dutt and 'An Eurasian Poet' Arvind Krishna Mehrotra; 8. Rabindranath translated to Tagore: Gitanjali Song Offerings (1912) Rosinka Chaudhuri; 9. Literary editors and the periodical press: John Grant and David Lester Richardson (the India Gazette and the Calcutta Literary Gazette) in Calcutta, 1820?40 Dan White; 10. The writer's workshop, Calcutta, 1958 onward Ananda Lal; 11. Mumbai's own poets' collective: clearing house Jerry Pinto; 12. Little magazines, bilingualism, and the culture of poetry: Bombay, 1950 onward Antjali Nerlekar; 13. Ezekiel: poet of a minor tradition Amit Chaudhuri; 14. Dom Moraes: a poet's progress Jeet Thayil; 15. Interpretive testimony: Kamala Das and Eunice de Souza R. Raj Rao; 16. Adil Jussawala and the double edge of poetry Laetitia Zechhini; 17. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and the interplay of languages Peter McDonald; 18. Arun Kolatkar: a singular poetry in two languages Rajeev Patke; 19. Imagery and imagination in the poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra Ashok Bery; 20. Modernisms and modernity: Keki Daruwala and Gieve Patel Graziano Kratli; 21. The third generation: Manohar Shetty and Melanie Silgardo Sharanya Murali; 22. 'My first, and only, sight': A. K. Ramanujan and the five senses Nakul Krishna; 23. US based but India born: G. S. Sharat Chandra and Vijay Seshadri Ravi Shankar; 24. First and foremost… a poet in the English language: Agha Shahid Ali Hena Ahmad; 25. The languages of diaspora: Meena Alexander, Sujata Bhatt Lopa Basu; 26. The poetry of my contemporaries: contexts for an Indian English poet in the nineties Vivek Narayanan; 27. Our speaking English voice: a voice that speaks for us? Anjum Hasan.