Includes bibliographies.

The present book is an attempt to analyse some of the outstanding post-colonial writers like Arundhati Roy (Booker Prize winner 1997), Vikram Chandra (Commonwealth Prize winner 1997), Derek Walcott (Nobel Prize winner), Margaret Atwood (Booker Prize winner 2000), Jayanta Mahapatra, Dom Moraes, Nissim Ezekiel, Keki N. Daruwalla, Kamala Das, Shiv K. Kumar, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Ruskin Bond (all Sahitya Akademi Award winners) in the light of post-colonial theory. Apart from analysing individual authors, an attempt has also been made to show the trends in post-colonial poetry, Indian English fiction, Orissan contribution to post-colonial Indian English literature and above all, post-colonial English studies in India.