India in spite of her variety and complexity is a cultural unit. She stamped an image of her own culture. Culture is an exploratory term, which advocates the sum total of all that is reflected in the mode of life of people – their thought processes, attitudes and outlook towards life, social structure, infrastructure, values, traditions, customs, their requirements, aims, aspirations, ambitions and national commitment and then this is best expressed through arts and letters of the country. Best measurement of culture of any nation is possibly only through her literature. Literature represents the inner and outer life of a nation. Indian English literature began as a byproduct of eventful encounter between vigorous and enterprising Britain and a stagnant and chaotic India. This encounter is, “India, withered trunk…suddenly shot out with foreign foliage.” One form of this foliage resulted in original writing in English by Indians. The most significant event in the hist...
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