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About the book - Indian english fiction has come a long way since the 1980s. It is very much original and intensely indian in both theme and spirit which has led to a phenomenal increase in its readership putting the publishing industry on a roll. The indian english fiction: a critical spectrum foregrounds the dynamics of fiction through a critical examination of some of the significant novelists such as nayantara sahgal, bharati mukherjee, v.s. Naipaul, shashi deshpande, shobha de, vikram chandra, amitav ghosh, chitra banerjee divakaruni, jhumpa lahiri, manju kapoor, shauna singh baldwin, kiran desai, arvind adiga, raj kamal jha and manu joseph. These novelists write with a sense of the present and have enriched the indian english fiction with their broadness of outlook and rootedness in indian culture and tradition. The reflective discursive style of the articles makes the book richer. A major hope, in compiling these articles, has been to broaden the canvas of indian english fiction criticism, and to help the interested researchers and scholars to venture into new critical paradigms of the novelists herein. About the editor - Rajni singh, did her m.a. (english) and ph.d. From banaras hindu university. She has worked and published in the areas of victorian poetry and indian english writing. She has authored a book entitled, tennyson and t.s. Eliot (2005) and also edited and co-edited books entitled, r.k. Singh's mind and art: a symphony of expressions (2011) and indian poetry in english: in search of identity (2012). She has also been active in the areas of english language teaching and has diversified to english for science and technology and other professional communication skills development of technical students at tertiary level. She is associate professor of english in the department of humanities & social sciences, indian school of mines, dhanbad.