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60 Essential English-Language Works of Modern Indian Literature - World Literature Today - Page 2

List published in the November 2010 issue of World Literature Today.
There are more than 60 books in this list because there is a trilogy (I added each tome), then a couple of books were in two volumes.
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Indivisible (Neelanjana Banerjee)
Indivisible
41
Neelanjana Banerjee
Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry From the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond (Tina Chang)
Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry From the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond
42
Tina Chang
The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature (Amit Chaudhuri)
The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature
43
Amit Chaudhuri
New Writing in India (Adil Jussawalla)
New Writing in India
44
Adil Jussawalla
Away: The Indian Writer as an Expatriate (Amitava Kumar)
Away: The Indian Writer as an Expatriate
45
Amitava Kumar
Speaking for Myself: An Anthology of Asian Women's Writing (M. Lal & S. P. Kumar)
Speaking for Myself: An Anthology of Asian Women's Writing
46
M. Lal & S. P. Kumar
Twelve Modern Indian Poets (A. K. Mehrotra)
Twelve Modern Indian Poets
47
A. K. Mehrotra
Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets (R. Parthasarathy)
Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets
48
R. Parthasarathy
A Matter of Taste: The Penguin Book of Indian Food Writing (Nilanjana S. Roy)
A Matter of Taste: The Penguin Book of Indian Food Writing
49
Nilanjana S. Roy
The Vintage Book of Indian Writing, 1947-1997 (Edited by Salman Rushdie and Elizabeth West)
The Vintage Book of Indian Writing, 1947-1997
50
Edited by Salman Rushdie and Elizabeth West
The Harpercollins Book of Modern English Poetry by Indians (Sudeep Sen)
The Harpercollins Book of Modern English Poetry by Indians
51
Sudeep Sen
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (Nirad C. Chaudhuri)
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
52
Nirad C. Chaudhuri
My Story (Kamala Das)
My Story
53
Kamala Das
Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction (Leela Gandhi)
Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction
54
Leela Gandhi
The Imam and the Indian (Amitav Ghosh)
The Imam and the Indian
55
Amitav Ghosh
The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home (Pico Iyer)
The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home
56
Pico Iyer
Poetry, Politics and Culture: Essays on Indian Texts and Contexts (Akshaya Kumar)
Poetry, Politics and Culture: Essays on Indian Texts and Contexts
57
Akshaya Kumar
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Suketu Mehta)
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
58
Suketu Mehta
Temptations of the West (Pankaj Mishra)
Temptations of the West
59
Pankaj Mishra
The Perishable Empire: Essays on Indian Writing in English (Meenakshi Mukherjee)
The Perishable Empire: Essays on Indian Writing in English
60
Meenakshi Mukherjee
India: A Million Mutinies Now (V. S Naipaul)
India: A Million Mutinies Now
61
V. S Naipaul
Diddi: My Mother's Voice (Ira Pande)
Diddi: My Mother's Voice
62
Ira Pande
On Balance (Leila Seth)
On Balance
63
Leila Seth
My Own Country (Abraham Verghese)
My Own Country
64
Abraham Verghese
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