This volume of critical essays on Indian literature covers a wide range of genres like novel, short story and poetry and of languages like Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Oriya, Kannada and Malayalam besides English. Informed by a deep and firsthand awareness of Indian literary trends and texts as well as of contemporary literary theory, these essays revaluate concepts and movements like Modernism, Dalit literature, Nativism, Dalit literature, Nativism and Feminism and offer close readings of the texts of a number of Indian writers including Premchand, Mirza Ghalib, Mahasweta Devi, Ramakanta Rath, Kamala Das, Chandrasekhara Kambar and Ayyappa Paniker.