EDITORIAL

Abstract

Indian English fiction is today more than a century old. Since pre independence day, it has traversed a long journey witnessing various ups and downs in its social, cultural and political history. It is interesting to see its gradual development in themes and techniques in synchroneity with the thinking of Indian people. From the colonial days, there has been a tremendous shift in its focus and concerns. If the trinity - Rao, Anand and Narayan captured the ethos of Indian society in their respective novels, registering the social and political awakening of the Gandhian period, post Indian Novelists in English have brilliantly probed their age old traditions and myths and have transformed them in their fictional pieces with such a linguistic innovation that has surprised even the West. Contemporary Indian English fiction startles any scholar by its diversity of themes and styles.