Synopsis New Perspectives on Indian English Writings is a collection of thirty-eight research papers on various fictionists, dramatists and poets of Indian origin.  These papers, contributed by scholars and teachers of repute, study in depth the major works of the pioneers as well as emerging Indian authors, writing in English.  The writers included in this volume are Kamala Markandaya, Jhumpa Lahiri, Shashi Deshpande, Nayantara Sahgal, Girish Karnad, Manju Kapur, Bharati Mukherjee, R.K. Narayan, Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Gita Mehta, Kamala Das, Nissim Ezekiel, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Many others.  The wide range of the authors, covered in this volume, makes it useful for researchers, teachers and postgraduate students, studying in various universities of India.