contribution of indian writer in english literature
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English is a foreign language but since the British came to India the language has had an impact on several fields—in education, literary effort and as a medium of communication.
Indian English Literature refers to that body of work by writers from India, who writes in the English language and whose native or co-native language could be one of the numerous regional and indigenous languages of India. English literature in India is also linked with the works of writers of the Indian diaspora born in India but residing elsewhere.
A pioneer of this literature was Raja Rammohan Roy whose prose works is noteworthy. Indian literature in English actually dates back to the 1830s to Kashiprasad Ghosh, who is considered the first Indian poet write in English.
Sochee Chunder Dutt was the first writer of fiction. In the beginning, however, political writing in the novel or essay format was dominant, as can be seen in Raja Rammohan Roy’ works.
Some of Rabindranath Tagore’s works were originally written in English Sadhana Personality and The Religion of Man Yet another Indian writer in English was Sarojini Naidu, the Nightingale of India’, who rendered familiar things with an essence of colour and romance. The Golden Threshold, The Bird of Time and The Broken Wing are her important works. Jawaharlal Nehru’s prose works, The Discovery of India and Glimpses of World History, are famous.
While Indian poets, novelists, essayists, dramatists have been making momentous and considerable contributions to world literature since the pre-Independence era, the past few years have witnessed a thriving of Indian English writing in the global market. The works of Indian authors writing in English are often to be found on the best-seller list. They are also incurring and earning an immense amount of critical fame.
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