Explorations in Post-colonial Indian English Literature: a Survey

The term ?Postcolonial? came after the term ?colonial? which was based on the theory of the superiority of European culture or Imperial culture and the rightness of the empire. Colonial literature means the literature written by the native people including the writings by creoles and indigenous writers during the colonial times in India. Bhabani Bhattacharya, Manohar Malgonkar , Kushwant Singh and Arun Joshi focus on specific socio-political problems placing the country whereas the novelists like R. P. Jhabvala , Kamala Markandaya, Nayantra Sahgal and Anita Desai view, from feminist perspectives ,socio-political as well as personal problems. Some recent novelists like Salman Rushdie, Kiran Desai, Githa Hariharan and Amitabh Ghosh highlight postcolonial issues in more specific ways.