1. Indian Writing in English
-Special Canon of literature
Writing of Indian writers

2. Introduction 31st Dec. 1600 British East India Company established
Christian Missionaries settle in India
Schools and religion spread
Company promoted recruitments
Charles Grant resisted English Language in 1792 to solve the problem of communication gap.

3. Introduction In 1835 English adopted as an official language
Lord Macaulay pleaded for English in school curriculum
Bengal region was progressive in English language usage
Raja Ram Mohan Roy-supported English
English language and literature was introduced for the first time in India as a part of curriculum at Presidency college Calcutta

4. Introduction It enhanced English literature
Earlier Indian mythology translated
Kalidasa’s Shakuntala was translated in English by Sir William Jones

5. Raja Ram Mohan Roy Supported western education
Worked for East India Company from 1804 to 1811
Started Hindu college on 28th January 1817 to promote English
Founded a school in Suripara near Calcutta
Founded another school called Anglo-Hindu school in 1822

6. Indo-Anglian Literature
Many terms for Indian writing in English
Indo-Anglian, Indo-Anglican or Anglo Indian literature
It concerns with original writing of Indian writers in English, not translation alone
E. F. Oaten- A Sketch of Anglo-Indian Literature (1908) describes the literature of Henry Derozio

7. Indo-Anglican Literature
V. K. Gokak- English in India: Its past and future (1964) coined the term Indo- Anglican literature
Writers belong to Indian origin -are Indian writers
Kipling, Forster are few British writers writing about India
Indian Diaspora- Indian origin- Naipaul, Bharati Mukherji, Jhumpa Lahiri, Salman Rushdie
Ruth Prawar Jhabwala- Poland

8. Early Indo-Anglican Literature
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio- ( )
Had Indo-Portuguese father and English mother
The Fakeer of Jungheera: a material tale and other poems (1828)
Toru Dutt-( )
Binaca or the young Spanish maiden

9. Early Indo-Anglican Literature
Rabindranath Tagore-
Gitanjali received noble prize for literature
Drama- Poetic drama-The Post office, Chitra
Novel-The Wreck, Gora

10. Early Indo-Anglican Literature
Sri Aurobindo- Yogi- Famous poet, dramatist
Savitri-epical poem, The divine Life-Spiritual poem
Sarojini Naidu-Nightingale of India-sensuous poems
The Golden Threshold

11. Early Indian writing in English
Harindranath Chattopadhyaya-
Kashiprasad Ghosh
Krishna Mohan Banerji
Three great novelist-Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan

12. Literature after Independence
Nissim Ezekiel-poet
Dom Mores
A K Ramanujan
R. Parthasarthy
Keki Daruwala
Kamla Das
Jayant Mahapatra
Shiv Kumar

13. Themes in Modern poetry
Theme of alienation
Eunice Desouza
Nissim Ezekiel
Dom Mores
Gieve Patel