The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English

Abbas, K.A. (1914–1987)

Acharya, Shanta (1953–)

Adiga, Aravind (1974–)

Agrawal, Vinita (1965–)

Algebra of Infinite Justice, the, by Arundhati Roy

Ali, Agha Shahid (1949–2001)

Ali, Ahmed (1910–1994)

All about H. Hatterr by G.V. Desani

Anand, Mulk Raj (1905–2004)

Antony, Shinie (1965–)

Ao, Temsula (1945–2022)

Arriving Shortly by K. Srilata

Artist of Disappearance, the, by Anita Desai

Atlas of Impossible Longing, A Novel by Anuradha Roy

Atlas of Lost Beliefs, the, by Ranjit Hoskote

Aurobindo, Sri (1872–1950)

Azadi by Chaman Nahal

Badami, Anita Rau (1961–)

Baldwin, Shauna Singh (1962–)

Banker, Ashok (1964–)

Barua, Jahnavi (1967–)

Basu, Kunal (1956–)

Basu, Samit (1979–)

Becoming Indian: The Unfinished Revolution of Culture and Identity by Pavan K. Varma

Bhagat, Chetan (1974–)

Bhasin, Kamla (1946–2021)

Bhatt, Sujata (1956–)

Bhattacharya, Bhabani (1906–1988)

Black Hill, the, by Mamang Dai

Bond, Ruskin (1934–)

Book of Gold Leaves, the, by Mirza Waheed

Book of Rachel, the, by Esther David

Bookless in Baghdad by Shashi Tharoor

Brata, Sasthi (1939–2015)

Butalia, Urvashi (1952–)

Chandra, Vikram (1961–)

Chasing the Rainbow: Growing up in an Indian Village by Manoj Das

Chatterjee, Upamanyu (1959–)

Chattopadhyay, Harindranath (1898–1990)

Chaudhuri, Amit (1962–)

Chaudhuri, Nirad C. (1897–1999)

Chauhan, Anuja (1970–)

Chowdhury, Kundan Lal (1941–2021)

Chowdhury, Siddharth (1974–)

Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer, the, by Cyrus Mistry

Clearing a Space by Amit Chaudhuri

Collected Poems by Nissim Ezekiel

Collected Poems by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

Collected Poems, the, by A.K. Ramanujan

Collected Short Stories, the, by Ruskin Bond

Collector's Wife, the, by Mitra Phukan

Continent of Circe, the, by Nirad C. Chaudhuri

Cowasjee, Saros (1931–2019)

Cuckold by Kiran Nagarkar

Currimbhoy, Asif (1928–1994)

Da Cunha, Nisha (1934–)

Dai, Mamang (1957–)

Daruwalla, Keki N. (1937–)

Das, Gurcharan (1943–)

Das, Kamala (1934–2009)

Das, Manoj (1934–2021)

Dasgupta, Rana (1971–)

Dasgupta, Sanjukta (1952–)

Datta, Rabindranath (1883–1917)

Dattani, Mahesh (1958–)

David, Esther (1945–)

Davidar, David (1958–)

Dawesar, Abha (1974–)

De Souza, Eunice (1940–2017)

Delhi: A Novel by Khushwant Singh

Derozio, Henry Louis Vivian (1809–1831)

Desai, Anita (1937–)

Desai, Kiran (1971–)

Desani, G. V. (1909–2000)

Deshpande, Gauri (1942–2003)

Deshpande, Shashi (1938–)

Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee

Deva, Mukul (1961–)

Devadoss, Manohar (1936–2022)

Devil's Wind, the, by Manohar Malgonkar

Tej N. Dhar (1944–)

Dharker, Imtiaz (1954–)

Dhondy, Farrukh (1944–)

Difficult Daughters by Manju Kapur

Difficulty of Being Good, the, by Gurcharan Das

Disorderly Women by Malathi Rao

Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee (1956–)

Doshi, Tishani (1975–)

D'Silva, Neil (1975–)

Dutt, Michael Madhusudan (1824–1873)

Dutt, Toru (1856–1877)

Dyson, Ketaki Kushari (1940–)

East into Upper East: Plain Tales from New York and Delhi by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Elephant Bathing by Anand Thakore

Em and The Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto

English, August: An Indian Story by Upamanyu Chatterjee

Exquisite Cadavers by Meena Kandasamy

Ezekiel, Nissim (1924–2004)

Feminist Fables by Suniti Namjoshi

Final Solutions and Other Plays by Mahesh Dattani

Fine Balance, A, by Rohinton Mistry

Forest of Enchantments, the, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.

Fraser, Bashabi (1954–)

From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt against the West and the Remaking of Asia by Pankaj Mishra

Furtado, Joseph (1872–1947)

Ganesan, Indira (1960–)

Garden of Solitude, the, by Siddhartha Gigoo

Ghosh, Amitav (1956–)

Ghose, Sudhin N. (1899–1965)

Gidwani, Bhagwan S. (1923–2020)

Gigoo, Siddhartha (1974–)

Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore

Glassblower's Breath, the, by Sunetra Gupta

God of Small Things, the, by Arundhati Roy

Gokhale, Namita (1956–)

Golden Gate, the, By Vikram Seth

Golden Honeycomb, the, by Kamala Markandaya

Gour, Neelum Saran (1955–)

Great Indian Novel, the, by Shashi Tharoor

Guha, Ramachandra (1958–)

Guide, the, by R. K. Narayan

Gupta, Sunetra (1965–)

Hariharan, Githa (1954–)

Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Hosain, Attia (1913–1998)

Hoskote, Ranjit (1969–)

House for Mr. Biswas, A, by V.S. Naipaul

House of Blue Mangoes, the, by David Davidar

I Dreamt a Horse Fell from the Sky by Adil Jussawalla

Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981–1991 by Salman Rushdie

Imam and the Indian, the, by Amitav Ghosh

In the Convent of Little Flowers by Indu Sundaresan

In the Country of Deceit by Shashi Deshpande

Indian Mythology: Tales, Symbols, and Rituals from the Heart of the Subcontinent by Devdutt Pattanaik

Inheritance of Loss, the, by Kiran Desai

Inscrutable Americans, the, by Anurag Mathur

Inside the Haveli by Rama Mehta

Irani, Anosh (1974–)

Island of Lost Girls, the, by Manjula Padmanabhan

Isvaran, Manjeri Sundaraman (1910–1966)

Iyengar, K.R. Srinivasa (1908–1999)

Jaidka, Manju (1953–)

Jain, Jasbir (1937–)

Jain, Sunita (1941–2017)

Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer (1927–2013)

Joseph, Manu (1974–)

Joseph, Zilka (1963–)

Joshi, Arun (1939–1993)

Jung, Nizamat (1871–1955)

Jussawalla, Adil Jehangir (1940–)

Kala Ghoda Poems by Arun Kolatkar

Kala, Advaita (1976–)

Kandan the Patriot by K.S. Venkataramani

Kandasamy, Meena (1984–)

Kanga, Firdaus (1960–)

Kannan, Lakshmi (1947–)

Karnad, Girish (1938–2019)

Katyal, Akhil (1985–)

Kesavan, Mukul (1957–)

Khair, Tabish (1966–)

Khare, Randhir (1951–)

Kire, Easterine (1959–)

Kishore, Usha (1962–)

Kolatkar, Arun (1931–2004)

Krishnamurti, Jiddu (1895–1986)

Kumar, Amitava (1963–)

Kumar, Shiv K. (1921–2017)

Kumar, Sukrita Paul (1949–)

Lahiri, Jhumpha (1967–)

Lal, Malashri (1949–)

Lal, Purushotam (1929–2010)

Lalwani, Nikita (1973–)

Languages of Truth by Salman Rushdie

Liddle, Madhulika (1973–)

Like Blood on the Bitten Tongue: Delhi Poems by Akhil Katyal

Lives of Others, the, by Neel Mukherjee

Madhaviah, A. (1872–1925)

Madras to Manhattan by Prema Sastri

Mahapatra, Jayanta (1928–)

Mahomet, Dean (1759–1851)

Malgonkar, Manohar (1913–2010)

Man of Glass by Tabish Khair

Manral, Kiran (1971–)

Markandaya, Kamala (1924–2004)

Mathai, Anna Sujatha (1934–)

Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna (1947–)

Mehta, Gita (1943–)

Mehta, Rama (1923–1978)

Mehta, Suketu (1963–)

Mehta, Ved Parkash (1934–2021)

Mendonca, Kavita Ezekiel (1953–)

Menezes, Armando (1902–1983)

Menon, Ritu (1949–)

Merchant, Hoshang (1947–)

Mishra, Jaishree (1961–)

Mishra, Pankaj (1969–)

Mistry, Cyrus (1956–)

Mistry, Rohinton (1952–)

Mohanty, Niranjan (1953–2008)

Moraes, Dom (1938–2004)

Mukherjee, Bharati (1940–2017)

Mukherjee, Meenakshi (1937–2009)

Mukherjee, Neel (1970–)

Mukherjee, Siddhartha (1970–)

Murty, Sudha (1950–)

Nagarkar, Kiran (1942–2019)

Nahal, Chaman (1927–2013)

Naidu, Sarojini (1879–1949)

Naik, M.K. (1926–2014)

Naipaul, Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad (1932–2018)

Nair, Anita (1966–)

Nair, Rukmini Bhaya (1952–)

Nambisan, Kavery (1949–)

Nambisan, Vijay (1963–2017)

Namjoshi, Suniti (1941–)

Nandanvan and Other Stories by Lakshmi Kannan

Nandy, Pritish (1951–)

Narayan, Kirin (1959–)

Narayan, R.K. (1906–2001)

Narayan, Shyamala A. (1947–)

Narasimhaiah, C.D. (1921–2005)

Narasimhan, Raji (1930–)

Once Was Bombay by Pinki Virani

Opium Clerk, the, by Kunal Basu

Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandit by Rahul Pandita

Padhi, Bibhu (1951–)

Padmanabhan, Manjula (1953–)

Pandita, Rahul (1976–)

Pant, Meghna (1980–)

Parameswaran, Uma (1938–)

Pariat, Janice (1982–)

Parthasarathy, Rajagopal (1934–)

Patel, Gieve (1940–)

Pattanaik, Devdutt (1970–)

Peeradina, Saleem (1944–)

Phukan, Mitra (1986–)

Pillai, Manu (1990–)

Pinto, Jerry (1966–)

Plans for Departure by Nayantara Sahgal

Prabhu, Gayathri (1974–)

Prabhu, Manjiri (1964–)

Quiet of the Birds, the, by Nisha Da Cunha

Rajan, Balachandra (1920–2009)

Rajendran, Arjun (1979–)

Rama Rao, Pedapudi Ganga (1935–)

Ramakrishnan, E.V. (1951–)

Ramanujan, A.K. (1929–1993)

Ranchan, Som P. (1932–2014)

Rao, Malathi P. (1930–)

Rao, R. Raj (1955–)

Rao, Raja (1908–2006)

Rao, Ranga (1936–2018)

Ray, Lila (1910–1992)

Ray, Satyajit (1921–1992)

Ray, Shreela (1942–1994)

Rayaprol, Srinivas (1925–1998)

Red Earth and Pouring Rain by Vikram Chandra

Requiem in Raga Janki by Neelum Saran Gour

River Sutra, A, by Gita Mehta

Room in our Hearts and Other Stories by Kundan Lal Chowdhury

Rough Passage by Rajagopal Parthasarathy

Roy, Anuradha (1967–)

Roy, Arundhati (1961–)

Rushdie, Salman (1947–)

Sahgal, Nayantara (1927–)

Salim, Anees (1970–)

Sanghi, Ashwin (1969–)

Sarabhai, Bharati (1912–)

Sarang, Vilas Govind (1942–2015)

Sastri, Prema (1932–2017)

Savitri by Sri Aurobindo

Scandal Point by Manju Jaidka

Seahorse by Janice Pariat

Sealy, I. Allan (1951–)

Selected Poems by Dom Moraes

Selected Poems by Jayanta Mahapatra

Sen, Sudeep (1964–)

Sengupta, Anindita (1978–)

Sengupta, Poile (1948–)

Serpent and the Rope, the, by Raja Rao

Seshadri, Vijay (1954–)

Seth, Vikram (1952–)

Sethna, K. D. (1904–2011)

Shadow Lines, the, by Amitav Ghosh

Shadow Play by Shashi Deshpande

Shame by Salman Rushdie

Sharma, Bulbul (1952–)

Sharma, Partap (1939–2011)

Shourie, Arun (1941–)

Sidhwa, Bapsi (1938–)

Singh, Khushwant (1915–2014)

Sinha, Indra (1950–)

Small Days and Nights by Tishani Doshi

Solo by Rana Dasgupta

Srilata, K. (1968–)

Subramaniam, Arundhathi (1973–)

Suitable Boy, A, by Vikram Seth

Sundaresan, Indu (1968–)

Surendran, C.P. (1958–)

Suri, Manil (1959–)

Sword and the Sickle, the, by Mulk Raj Anand

Tagore, Rabindranath (1861–1941)

Tale of a Beleaguered Soldier, the, by Tej Nath Dhar

Thakore, Anand (1971–)

Tharoor, Shashi (1956–)

That Long Silence by Shashi Deshpande

Thayil, Jeet (1959–)

Thousand Faces of Night, the, by Githa Hariharan

Tripathi, Amish (1974–)

Trotter-Nama: A Chronicle, the, by I. Allan Sealy

Twentieth Wife, the, by Indu Sundaresan

Twilight in Delhi by Ahmed Ali

Two Women by Bharati Sarabhai

Tyrewala, Altaf (1977–)

Unquiet Woods, the, by Ramchandra Guha

Vadukut, Sidin (1979–)

Vaid, Krishna Baldev (1947–2020)

Vakil, Ardashir (1962–)

Vanita, Ruth (1955–)

Varma, Pavan K. (1953–)

Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems, the, by Agha Shahid Ali

Venkataramani, K.S. (1891–1952)

Venkateswaran, Pramila (1959–)

Verma, Mona (1970–)

Vijayan, O.V. (1930–2005)

Virani, Pinki (1959–)

Waheed, Mirza (1974–)

White Tiger, the, by Aravind Adiga

Zaidi, Annie (1978–)