Importance Of Indian Literature In English

It is stated that the study of the English language was imposed upon Indians by Lord Macaulay with the sole purpose of benefiting the British administration in India. It has given India an edge over every county where English is considered a foreign language. Right now, in India, English plays a major role in all domains, such as, education, administration, politics, industry, etc. and is therefore helps in attaining social mobility, higher education and a better job opportunity. It is become an essential skill used in everyday life, here in India.

Indian Literature in English has a short but highly influential history. It all started in 1793, it was Sake Dean Mahomed who was the first Indian author to write in English. His book was called,

Such abundance I accept apparent in this country, such top moral values, humans of such caliber, that I do not anticipate we would anytime beat this country, unless we breach the actual courage of this nation, which is her airy and cultural heritage, and, therefore, I adduce that we alter her old and age-old apprenticeship system, her culture, for if the Indians anticipate that all that is adopted and English is acceptable and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their built-in self-culture and they will become what we ambition them, an absolutely bedeviled nation”. This is where the start of the British’s hostile takeover of India

He became the first non-European to win the Nobel prize for “Gitanjali”,he did so as an Indian subject of the British Empire. It was described as “profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic though, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the west.”

The few examples of Indian authors makes one believe that they did not just adapt the language because they though it was superior, but in fact did so, so that their work and all their culture present in it, can be found by people all over the world in their books and be recognized not as the British wanted them to be, but how they wanted people to see them.

Indian Literature in English has opened us up to the world, brought us to people of different races, and vice versa. It has introduced our culture to different places and their culture to us, and helped us grow as a country and as a culture around the