| Description |
xxvi, 399 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
PROLOGUE -- England / Nirad C. Chaudhuri -- Good advice is rarer than rubies / Salman Rushdie -- A to Z street atlas / Amitav Ghosh -- Goodbye party for Miss Pushpa T.S. / Nissim Ezekiel -- PART I -- Advertisements in Brighton 1822-38 / Dean Mahomed -- My first visit to England / Sunity Devee -- Letters and notes / Rabindranath Tagore -- In England and South Africa / M.K. Gandhi -- Letters / Sarojini Naidu -- The sum total of good I can do / Subhas Chandra Bose -- In the modern world / Jawaharlal Nehru -- Lions and shadows in the sherry party in Harold Monro's poetry bookshop / Mulk Raj Anand -- Red Indians in England / Qurratulain Hyder -- PART II -- My America / R.K. Narayan -- Changes of scenery / Dom Moraes -- Speaking in tongues / Farrukh Dhondy -- Naturalized citizen no. 984-5165 / Ved Mehta -- Some Indian uses of history on a rainy day / A, L Ramanujan -- The ceremony of farewell / V.S. Naipaul -- Eating the eggs of love / Salman Rushdie -- Two ways to belong in America / Bharati Mukherjee -- Wild women, wild men / Hanif Kureishi -- The cowpath to America / Abraham Verghese -- PART III -- Oxford / Amit Chaudhuri -- Indoor language ; Gold emporium / Meera Syal -- The first letter home / Anurag Mathur -- Vegetarian summer / Anita Desai -- When on route 80 in Ohio / Agha Shahid Ali -- Swimming lessons / Rohinton Mistry -- The Imam and I / Amitav Ghosh -- Flight / Amitava Kumar -- EPILOGUE -- There's no place like home / Pankaj Mishra |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Indians -- Foreign countries -- Intellectual life.
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East Indians -- Foreign countries -- Intellectual life.
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Emigration and immigration in literature.
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Expatriation in literature.
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Indic literature (English) -- Foreign countries -- History and criticism.
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| Author |
Kumar, Amitava, 1963-
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| LC no. |
2003019121 |
| ISBN |
0415968968 acid-free paper |
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0415968976 paperback acid-free paper |
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