Synopsis Colonialism, apart from being a political and civilisational encounter, was a confluence of different knowledge systems, literary and critical discourses. A synthesis of Western/English and Indian-Sanskrit/Bhasa critical discourses took place in the colonial period of India. Keeping the significance of this synthesis in view, the present volume puts together select articles from Indian puts together select articles from Indian English, Hindi and Gujarati (Transalted) to facilitate an understanding of the then critical activities, trends and movements and the forces that influenced them during that period.