Waffle of the Toffs
Contents
Preface................................................................................................... 3
Acknowledgments............................................................................... .. 4
Chapter 1 Right Start, Wrong Turn: From Henry Derozio To Aurobindo Ghose.................................................................................................. .. 5
Chapter 2 Straightening the Kink: The Makers of IWE......................... 15
Chapter 3 A Brief Survey of the Writers’ Milieu: Oriental...................... 24
Chapter 4 A Brief Survey of the Writers' Milieu: Occidental..................34
Chapter 5 Governing Elite as the Cultural Elite:
An Overview of the Prevailing Scene ...................................................46
Chapter 6 Belles-lettres as a Social Grace: The Rise of Women Novelists................................................................................................66
Chapter 7 The Literary Oligarchy: Contemporary Male Novelists.........79
Chapter 8 Indian Poetry in English: The Teachers' Co-operative..........94
Chapter 9 Indian Poetry in English: The Other Set.............................115
Postscript.......................................................................................... .135
Epilogue............................................................................................. 139