Emergence of English Writing by Indians

MEG - 10 ENGLISH STUDIES IN INDIA

ASSIGNMENT 2016 - 2017

(Based on Blocks 1 – 8)

Q1:-Discuss some of the circumstances that led to the emergence of English Writing by Indians?

Indian writing in English has a relatively short but highly charged history. In 1793, Sake Dean Mahomed wrote perhaps the first book by an Indian in English, called The Travels of Dean Mahomed. However, most early Indian writing in English was non-fictional work, such as biographies and political essays. This began to change in the late 1800s, when famous Indian authors who wrote mostly in their mother tongue, began to try their hand at writing in English. In the early 1900s, Rabindranath Tagore began translating his works from Bengali to English

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