History without Footnotes: The Paradoxes of the Paradigm Shifts in Indian English Writing Literature

Abstract

Indian English Writing has been suffering from various Paradigm shifts right from the colonial period to the present day. No other country’s literature has gone into various labels or misnomers as Indian Literature. Indian Writing in English has been termed by many paradigms Indoâ€Anglo Literature, Indian Writing in English, Commonwealth Literature, Third World Literature, Diasporic Literature, Postâ€colonial Literature and India Studies