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Colonialist Nationalism in the Critical Practice of Indian Writing in English: A Critique

With the sub-disciplining of Indian writing in English as part of English literature, critical writings on such literature have frequently used the notions of "Indian tradition" and "Indian culture" as monolithic entities without paying any attention to the unproblematic nature of such notions. This is a study and critique to highlight how Indian writing in English has been privileged by a set of literary critics as the representative literature of "Indian nationalist sensibility" over other Indian language literature

Article, 2008