This book, containing 19 papers, seeks to examine the changing paradigm of language and literature, with special reference to India. Analyzing the teacher’s role in training and development, at discusses at length the examination and evaluation system at UG and PG levels of English literature in the universities of Uttar Pradesh, the impact of globalization on human rights in the country, and the intellectual property rights.

Making a comparative study of Thoreau and Gandhi as deliverers of humanity, it deals with the matrix in language in literature, social prejudice, teacher education, women as subaltern, and environmental issues.