Modern Indian poetry in english / by Bruce King

Includes index.

PART 1 : Introduction -- History and publishing circles -- The poets, their readers and the market -- Towards a canon -- Poetics and criticism -- Ezekiel and his influence -- The poet's India I : Ezekiel, Ramanujan, Patel, Daruwalla, Shiv Kumar -- The poet's India II : Peeradina, Rodrigues, De Souza, Shetty, Silgardo -- Women's voices: Kamala Das, De Souza, Silgardo -- Two bilingual experimentalists : Kolhatkar and Chitre -- Experimentalists II : Mehrotra and Mahapatra -- Exile : Ramanujan, Sharat Chandra, Kumar, Nazareth, Seth -- And return: Parthasarathy and Jussawalla -- PART 2 :The Diaspora: Agha Shahid Ali's Tricultural Nostalgia -- Publishing 1987-99 -- Maturity : Moraes, Peeradina, ramanujan, Patel, shetty, Mehrotra, daruwalla, de Souza, Alexander -- New Woman poets : Shivdasani, patel, D'Souza, Sambrani, Dharker, Divakaruni, Bhatt -- New Poets, Styles, and Feelings : Hoskote, Thayil, Surendran, Nambisan, Merchant, Rao, Padhi, Khair, Prasad, Ramakrishnan