Indian poetry in English

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Indian English poetry is the oldest form of Indian English literature. Indian poets writing in English have succeeded to nativize or indianize English in order to reveal typical Indian situations.[1] Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is considered the first poet in the lineage of Indian English poetry followed by Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Sarojini Naidu, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, and Toru Dutt, among others.

History[]

Indian poetry in English has a longer and more distinguished tradition than Indian fiction in English.

—Pankaj Mishra, The Times Literary Supplement. International Books of the Year, 3 December 2004:10

Nissim Ezekiel is considered to be a pioneering figure in modern Indian English Poetry.His first book, A Time to Change, was published in 1952. The significant poets of the post-Derozio and pre-Ezekiel times are Toru Dutt, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Sri Aurobindo and Rabindranath Tagore. Some of the notable poets of Ezekiel's time are A. K. Ramanujan, R. Parthasarathy, Gieve Patel, Jayant Mahapatra, Dom Moraes, Kamala Das, Keki N. Daruwalla, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Shiv K. Kumar, Arun Kolatkar and Dilip Chitre. Rabindranath Tagore wrote primarily in Bengali and created a small body of work (mainly prose) in English and was responsible for the translations of his own work into English.

If Indian poets in English are less well known abroad than the novelists it is probably because their concerns are personal, local and yet universal; they do not write, at least not directly about the nationalist and postcolonial political and cultural themes that the West patronizingly expects, even demands, from the formerly colonized.

—Bruce Alvin King, Modern Indian Poetry in English. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004

Poets[]

Other notable 20th century poets of English poetry in India include Eunice De Souza, Gieve Patel, Kersy Katrak and P. Lal among others. The younger generation of poets writing in English are Abhay K, Adil Jussawalla, A. J. Thomas, Anju Makhija, Anjum Hasan, Arundhathi Subramaniam, Hoshang Merchant, Madan Gopal Gandhi, Bibhu Padhi, C. P. Surendran, Dileep Jhaveri, Anuradha Bhattacharyya, Gopi Kottoor, Jayanta Mahapatra, Jeet Thayil, , Jerry Pinto, , K Srilata, K. V. Dominic, D. C. Chambial, T. Vasudeva Reddy, Makarand Paranjape, Akhil Katyal, Mani Rao, Meena Kandasamy, Menka Shivdasani, Manohar Shetty, Priya Sarukkai Chabria, , Ranjit Hoskote, Jaydeep Sarangi, Robin Ngangom, Nitoo Das, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, S. Anand, Salik Shah, Sudeep Sen, Sukrita Paul Kumar, Nalini Priyadarshni, Vijay Nambisan, Syam Sudhakar, Vihang A. Naik, Tapan Kumar Pradhan, Amitabh Mitra and Yuyutsu Sharma among others.

Modern expatriate Indian poets writing in English include Meena Alexander, Ravi Shankar, Sujata Bhatt, Tabish Khair, Vikram Seth and Vijay Seshadri among others.

Anthologies[]

See also: List of Indian English poetry anthologies

Notable anthologies of Indian English poetry include Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets (edited by R. Parthasarathy), Three Indian Poets: Nissim Ezekiel, A K Ramanujan, Dom Moraes (edited by Bruce Alvin King), The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets (edited by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra), 'Reasons for Belonging: Fourteen Contemporary Indian Poets (edited by Ranjit Hoskote), 60 Indian Poets (edited by Jeet Thayil), Harper Collins Anthology of English Poetry (edited by Sudeep Sen), Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry (edited by Menka Shivdasani,[2][3] published by Michael Rothenberg in 2004); Ten: The New Indian Poets (edited and selected by Jayanta Mahapatra and Yuyutsu Sharma, New Delhi/Jaipur: Nirala Publications).[4]

Awards and laurels[]

Journals[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "A Study of Indian English Poetry", International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, Volume 2, Issue 10, ISSN 2250-3153, October 2012.
  2. ^ "Contemporary Indian Poetry, "Like an Abhang, Unfinished"". BigBridge.Org. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  3. ^ "Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry Edited by Menka Shivdasani". Michael Rothenberg. BigBridge.Org. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
  4. ^ Yuyutsu Sharma, "Ten: The New Indian poets: Edited and Selected by Jayanta Mahapatra & Yuyutsu Sharma" (review), 27 October 2012.

Further reading[]

  • Arora, Sudhir K. "Cultural And Philosophical Reflections In Indian Poetry In English" (5 volumes). Authorspress, New Delhi, 2016.
  • Chinhade, Sirish. Five Indian English Poets. New Delhi. Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, 1996.
  • Das, Sisir Kumar. A History of Indian Literature (3 volumes). New Delhi. Sahitya Akademi, 2000.
  • Iyengar, KRS. Indian Writing in English. New Delhi. Sterling Publishers Private Limited, 2002.
  • King, Bruce. Modern Indian Poetry in English. New Delhi. Oxford University Press, 2004.
  • Mitra, Zinia. Indian Poetry in English : Critical Essays. PHI Learning , New Delhi, 2016.
  • Naik, M.K. A History of Indian English Literature. New Delhi, Sahitya Akademi, 2004.
  • Sarangi, Jaydeep. "Explorations in Indian English Poetry". Authorspress, New Delhi, 2007.

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