TY - BOOK AU - Neelam Srivastava TI - Secularism in the postcolonial Indian novel: national and cosmopolitan narratives in English SN - 0415402956 U1 - In823.91409 PY - 2007/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Literature KW - Secularism-Literature KW - Postcolonialism-Literature KW - English literature KW - English fiction KW - Indic fiction (English)--20th century--History and criticism KW - Cosmopolitanism in literature KW - Identity (Psychology) in literature KW - India--In literature N2 - Explores the connections between a secular Indian nation and fiction in English by a number of postcolonial Indian writers of the 1980s and 90s. Examining writers such as Vikram Seth, Salman Rushdie, and Amitav Ghosh, this book investigates different aspects of postcolonial identity within the secular framework of the Anglophone novel ER -