Indian Writing in English

Indian writing in English (or Indo-Anglian literature, as it is often called) may now be said to have come of age. It is a sub ject for post-graduate students in English at the Baroda Uni versity. Last year, the young Indian poet, Dom Moraes, was awarded the Hawthomden Prize for Poetry. In May 1958, the 'Times Literary Supplement' carried a full-page article on the novels of R. K. Narayan. During January-March 1959, K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar gave a course of 20 lectures on this unique literature to post-graduate students in English of the University of Leeds. Not Indian publishers alone, but enterprising British and American publishers also have been of late readily sponsor ing books in English by Indian writers—both creative literature and the literature of knowledge, including sensitive translations in English. In a way, never were times more propitious than now for the healthy growth of this literature.