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The book highlights the similarities between the ex-colonies of Britain called the Commonwealth. The common experience of colonial exploitation, struggle for independence and post-independence political and administrative corruption bind them together. In the 22 papers both Indian and foreign scholars have surveyed and analysed the cultural and political scenario through the literatures of Africa, Canada, Australia, Trinidad, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Maldives. Perhaps for the first time the lesser known literatures of the Commonwealth have been juxtaposed with the celebrated ones.