The first history of Indian literature in English to cover the two hundred years from Raja Rammohan Ray to Arundhati Roy, this book takes up the canonical poets, novelists, and dramatists, as well as many unjustly forgotten figures, who have made significant contributions to the evolution of Indian literature in English. The book's twenty-four chapters are written by some of the finest scholars in the field and look at key authors such as Kipling, Tagore, R.K. Narayan, Nirad C. Chaudhuri and V.S Naipaul, groups of authors such as the Dutt family of nineteenth-century Calcutta and the Indian diasporic writers of the twentieth century, and genres such as the Indian novel and post-Independence poetry. Together these essays form an indispensable guide for students and scholars, tracing the development of Indian literature in English since the beginning of the nineteenth century.