The perishable empire : essays on Indian writing in English /
Meenakshi Mukherjee.
- New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
- xiii, 212 p. ; 23 cm.
Nation, novel, language -- Rajmohan's wife : the first Indian English novel -- Churning the seas of treacle : three ways -- Ambiguous discourse : the novels of Krupa Satthianadhan -- Hearing her own voice : defective acoustics in colonial India -- "We say Desh" : the other Nirad Babu -- Maps and mirrors : co-ordinates of meaning in The shadow lines -- Haroun and the sea of stories : fantasy or fable? -- The anxiety of Indianness -- Divided by a common language.