CFP: Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH
This goes out to scholars working in the field of Indian Writing in English.
You are invited to contribute articles for a forthcoming ENCYCLOPEDIA OF INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH to be published by Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. This volume will focus on writers of fiction, poetry, drama, select literary works and non-fiction, from India (specifically, by writers of Indian origin writing in English). Translations will not be included.
If you would like to contribute an entry for this reference work, please respond at the earliest, in any case, not later than 30 November 2021.
The list of Authors and Titles to be included in the Encyclopedia is given below. You may choose to write on maximum four topics of your interest. Please indicate a few choices since your first choice may have been already assigned to someone else.
In the first half of December 2021, along with the confirmation of your assignment you will receive specific details regarding the format and the timeline. The deadline for submission of completed entries will be AUGUST 1, 2022. This is a firm deadline. If you have the slightest doubt about delivering your work by this date, please do not commit to the project.
(Please reply via email to: ency.iwie@gmail.com with a copy to manju@shooliniuniversity.com )
In your email, please send the topics of your choice along with a brief bio (not more than 200 words) and a writing sample.
There will be a humble reward for your efforts: a complimentary copy of the encyclopedia when it is published.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
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Sr. Professor of English
Head, School of Liberal Arts
Shoolini University, HP, India
TABLE OF CONTENTS – A
List of Authors
Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad (1000 words)
Acharya, Shanta (700 words)
Adiga, Arvind (1250 words)
Alexander, Meena (1250 words)
Ali, Agha Shahid (1000 words)
Ali, Ahmed (1000 words)
Anand, Mulk Raj (2000 words)
Antony, Shinie (700 words)
Ao, Temsula (800 words)
Aurobindo, Sri (1000 words)
Badami, Anita Rau (1000 words)
Baldwin, Shauna Singh (1250 words)
Banker, Ashok K. (1250 words)
Basu, Kunal (800 words)
Bhagat, Chetan (1000 words)
Bhasin, Kamla (1000 words)
Bhatt, Sujata (800 words)
Bhattacharya, Bhabani (1250 words)
Bond, Ruskin (1500 words)
Brata, Sasthi (800 words)
Butalia, Urvashi (800 words)
Chandra, Vikram (1250 words)
Chatterjee, Upamanyu (1250 words)
Chattopadhyay, Harindranath (1000 words)
Chaudhary, Amit (1250 words)
Chaudhuri, Nirad C. (1500 words)
Chowdhury, K.L. (800 words)
Chowdhury, Siddharth (1000 words)
Cowasji, Saros (800 words)
Cunha, Nisha da (800 words)
Currimbhoy, Asif (800 words)
D’Silva, Neil (700 words)
Dai, Mamang (1000 words)
Daruwala, Keki N. (1250 words)
Das, Gurcharan (800 words)
Das, Kamala (1500 words)
Das, Manoj (800 words)
Dasgupta, Rana (1000 words)
Dasgupta, Sanjukta (700 words)
Dattani, Mahesh (1500 words)
David, Esther (800 words)
Davidar, David (1000 words)
Dawesar, Abha (700 words)
De Souza, Eunice (800 words)
Derozio, Henry Louis Vivian (1000 words)
Desai, Anita (1500 words)
Desai, Kiran (1000 words)
Desani, G. V. (1000 words)
Deshpande, Gauri (800 words)
Deshpande, Shashi (2000 words)
Dhar, Tej Nath (700 words)
Dharker, Imtiaz (800 words)
Dhondy, Farrukh (800 words)
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee (1500 words)
Doshi, Tishani (700 words)
Dutt, Michael Madhusudan (1000 words)
Dutt, Toru (1000 words)
Dutta, Roby (700 words)
Dyson, Ketaki Kushari (700 words)
Ezekiel, Nissim (1500 words)
Fraser, Bashabi 600 words)
Furtado, Joseph (700 words)
Ganesan, Indira (700 words)
Ghose, Sudhin N. (700 words)
Ghosh, Amitav (1500 words)
Gidwani, Bhagwan S. (800 words)
Gigoo, Siddhartha (700 words)
Gokhale, Namita (1000 words)
Gour, Neelam Saran (800 words)
Guha, Ramachandra (1000 words)
Gupta, Sunetra (700 words)
Hariharan, Githa (1500 words)
Hosain, Attia (1000 words)
Hoskote, Ranjit (800 words)
Isvaran, Manjeri (700 words)
Iyenger, K. R. Srinivasa (800 words)
Jaggi, Satyadev (700 words)
Jaidka, Manju (700 words)
Jain, Sunita (800 words)
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer (1250 words)
Joseph, Manu (800 words)
Joseph, Zilka (700 words)
Joshi, Arun (1000 words)
Jung, Nizamat (700 words)
Jussawala, Adil (1000 words)
K., Srilata (700 words)
Kak, Manju (700 words)
Kala, Advaita (800 words)
Kandasamy, Meena (800 words)
Kannan, Lakshmi (800 words)
Kapur, Manju (1000 words)
Karnad, Girish (1500 words)
Katyal, Akhil (800 words)
Kesavan, Mukul (800 words)
Khair, Tabish (800 words)
Khare, Randhir (700 words)
Kire, Easterine (700 words)
Kishore, Usha (700 words)
Kolatkar, Arun (1000 words)
Krishnamurti, J. (1250 words)
Kumar, Amitava (1250 words)
Kumar, Shiv K. (1250 words)
Kumar, Sukrita Paul (800 words)
Lahiri, Jhumpa (1250 words)
Lal, Malashri (700)
Lal, Purushotam (800 words)
Lalwani, Nikita (700 words)
Liddle, Madhulika (700 words)
Mahapatra, Jayanta (1250 words)
Malgonkar, Manohar (1250 words)
Manral, Kiran (700 words)
Markandaya, Kamala (1250 words)
Mathai, Anna Sujata (800 words)
Mehrotra, Arvind Krishan (1000 words)
Mehta, Gita (1000 words)
Mehta, Rama (800 words)
Mehta, Suketu (800 words)
Mehta, Ved (1000 words)
Mendonca, Kavita Ezekiel (700 words)
Menezes, Armando (700 words)
Menon, Ritu (800 words)
Merchant, Hoshang (700 words)
Mishra, Pankaj (800 words)
Misra, Jaishree (800 words)
Mistry, Cyrus (800 words)
Mistry, Rohinton (1250 words)
Mohanty, Niranjan (800 words)
Moraes, Dom (1250 words)
Mukherjee, Siddhartha (800 words)
Mukherjee, Bharati (1500 words)
Mukherjee, Neel (800 words)
Murty, Sudha (1000 words)
Nagarkar, Kiran (1000 words)
Nahal, Chaman (800 words)
Naidu, Sarojini (1000 words)
Naipaul, V.S. (2000 words)
Nair, Anita (800 words)
Nair, Rukmini Bhaya (800 words)
Namjoshi, Suniti (800 words)
Nandy, Pritish (800 words)
Narasimhan, Raji (700 words)
Narayan, Kirin (700 words)
Narayan, R. K. (2000 words)
Padhi, Bibhu (700 words)
Padmanabhan, Manjula (700 words)
Pandita, Rahul (700 words)
Pant, Meghna (700 words)
Parameswaram, Uma (800 words)
Pariat, Janice (800 words)
Parthasarathy, R. (1000 words)
Patel, Gieve (800 words)
Pattanaik, Devdutt (1250 words)
Peeradina, Saleem (800 words)
Phukan, Mitra (700 words)
Pillai, Manu (700 words)
Pinto, Jerry (800 words)
Prabhu, Manjiri (700 words)
Rajan, Balachandra (800 words)
Rajendran, Arjun (700 words)
Ramakrishnan, E. V. (700 words)
Ramanujan, A. K. (1000 words)
Rao, Malathi (700 words)
Rao, R. Raj (700 words)
Rao, Raja (2000 words)
Rao, Ranga (1000 words)
Ray, Lila (700 words)
Ray, Satyajit (1250 words)
Ray, Shreela (700 words)
Rao, Pedapudi Rama (700 words)
Rayaparol, Srinivas (700 words)
Roy, Anuradha (700 words)
Roy, Arundhati (1250 words)
Rushdie, Salman (2000 words)
Sahgal, Nayantara (1500 words)
Salim, Anees (700 words)
Sanghi, Ashwin (1000 words)
Sarabhai, Bharati (700 words)
Sastri, Prema (700 words)
Sealy, I. Allan (1250 words)
Sen, Sudeep (800 words)
Sengupta, Anindita (700 words)
Sengupta, Poile (700 words)
Sheshadri, Vijay (700 words)
Seth, Vikram (1250 words)
Sharma, Bulbul (800 words)
Shourie, Arun (1000 words)
Sidhwa, Bapsi (1500 words)
Singh, Khushwant (2000 words)
Sinha, Indra (700 words)
Subramaniam, Arundhathi (800 words)
Sundaresan, Indu (1000 words)
Suri, Manil (800 words)
Tagore, Rabindranath (1500 words)
Thakore, Anand (800 words)
Tharoor, Shashi (1500 words)
Thayil, Jeet (1000 words)
Tripathi, Amish (1000 words)
Vaid, Krishna Baldev (1000 words)
Vakil, Ardashir (700 words)
Vanita, Ruth (700 words)
Varma, Pavan (1000 words)
Venkataramani, K.S. (800 words)
Venkateswaran, Pramila (700 words)
Verma, Mona (700 words)
Vijayan, O.V. (1000 words)
Virani, Pinki (700 words)
Waheed, Mirza (700 words)
TABLE OF CONTENTS – B
List of Works (750 words each)
A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
A House for Mr Biswas, V.S. Naipaul
A River Sutra, Gita Mehta
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
All About H Hatterr, G.V. Desani
An Atlas of Impossible Longing, Anuradha Roy
Arriving Shortly, K. Srilata
Azadi, Chaman Nahal
Becoming Indian: The Unfinished Revolution of Culture and Identity,
Pavan K. Varma
Bookless in Baghdad and Other Writings About Reading, Shashi Tharoor
Book of Racheal byEsther David
Chasing the Rainbow: Growing Up in an Indian Village, Manoj Das
Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer, Cyrus Mistry
Clearing a Space: Reflections on India, Literature and Culture, Amit Chaudhuri
Collected Poems, 1952-1988, Nissim Ezekiel
Collected Poems, 1969-2014, Arvind Krishan Mehrotra
Collected Short Stories: Ruskin Bond
Cuckold, Kiran Nagarkar
Delhi, Khushwant Singh
Desirable Daughters: A Novel, Bharati Mukherjee
Difficult Daughters, Manju Kapur
Disorderly Women, Malathi Rao
East into Upper East: Plain Tales from New York and New Delhi, Ruth
Prawer Jhabvala
Elephant Bathing, Anand Thakore
Em and the Big Hoom, Jerry Pinto
English August: An Indian Story, Upamanyu Chatterjee
Exquisite Cadavers, Meena Kandasamy
Feminist Fables, Suniti Namjoshi
Final Solutions and Other Plays, Mahesh Dattani
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia, Pankaj Mishra
Gitanjali, Rabindranath Tagore
Heat and Dust, Ruth Prawer Jhabhwala.
I Dreamt a Horse Fell from the Sky, Adil Jussawalla
In the Convent of Little Flowers: Stories, Indu Sundaresan
In the Country of Deceit, Shashi Deshpande
Indian Mythology: Tales, Symbols, and Rituals from the Heart of The
Subcontinent, Devdutt Pattanaik
Imaginary Homelands, Salman Rushdie
Inside the Haveli, Rama Mehta
Kala Ghoda Poems, Arun Kolatkar
Kandan the Patriot, K.S. Venkataramani
Languages of Truth, Salman Rushdie
Like Blood on the Bitten Tongue: Delhi Poems, Akhil Katyal
Madras to Manhattan, Prema Sastri
Man of Glass, Tabish Khair
Nandanvan and Other Stories, Lakshmi Kannan
Once was Bombay, Pinki Virani
Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan, Toru Dutt
Our Moon has Blood Clots, Rahul Pandita
Plans for Departure: a Novel, Nayantara Sahgal
Red Earth and Pouring Rain, Vikram Chandra
Requiem in Raga Janki, Neelum Saran Gour
Room in Our Hearts and Other Stories, K.L. Chowdhury
Rough Passage, R. Parthasarathy
Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol, Sri Aurobindo
Scandal Point, Manju Jaidka
Seahorse, Janice Pariat
Selected Poems: Dom Moraes
Selected Poems: Jayanta Mahapatra
Shadow from Ladakh, Bhabani Bhattacharya
Shame, Salman Rushdie
Small Days and Nights, Tishani Doshi
Solo, Rana Dasgupta
That Long Silence, Shashi Deshpande
The Algebra of Infinite Justice, Arundhati Roy
The Artist of Disappearance, Anita Desai
The Atlas of Lost Beliefs, Ranjit Hoskote
The Black Hill, Mamang Dai
The Book of Gold Leaves, Mirza Waheed
The Collected Poems, A.K. Ramanujan
The Collector’s Wife, Mitra Phukan
The Continent of Circe, Nirad C. Chaudhuri
The Devil’s Wind, Manohar Malgonkar
The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma, Gurcharan Das
The Forest of Enchantments, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Garden of Solitude, Siddhartha Gigoo
The Glassblower’s Breath, Sunetra Gupta
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
The Golden Gate, Vikram Seth
The Golden Honeycomb, Kamala Markandaya
The Great Indian Novel, Shashi Tharoor
The Guide, R. K. Narayan
The House of Blue Mangoes, David Davidar
The Imam and the Indian: Prose Pieces, Amitav Ghosh
The Lives of Others, Neel Mukherjee
The Thousand Faces of Night, Githa Hariharan
The Trotter-Nama, A Chronicle, I.Allan Sealy
The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai
The Island of Lost Girls, Manjula Padmanabhan
The Quiet of the Birds: Collected Stories: Nisha da Cunha
The Serpent and the Rope, Raja Rao
The Shadow Lines, Amitav Ghosh
The Sword and the Sickle, Mulk Raj Anand
The Tale of a Beleaguered Soldier, Tej Nath Dhar
The Twentieth Wife, Indu Sundaresan
The Unquiet Woods, Ramachandra Guha
The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems, Agha Shahid Ali
The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
Trapfalls in the Sky: Poems, Shiv K. Kumar
Two Women, Bharati Sarabhai
Twilight in Delhi, Ahmed Ali