Synopsis Indian English novel has undergone a significant development in keeping with recent trends in contemporary fiction worldwide. The present book explores these developments in terms of themes and techniques through a selection of novels by three leading contemporary writers: Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh and Upamanyu Chatterjee. It focuses on the emergence of a new cosmopolitan consciousness through the study of a close interaction between the historio-political contexts and the individual and the resultant search for identity in a complex world. The book examines the attempts of these versatile authors who, in order to express complexities of contemporary experience, adapt techniques of postmodernist fiction. Investigative in approach, it offers new insights into the fast-growing area of Indian fiction in English.