New Englishes

NEW ENGLISHES - INDIA

Postcolonial Web - National University of Singapore:

	Contemporary Postcolonial & Postimperial Literature in English
	Postcolonial and Postimperial Authors

New Englishes - Linguistic considerations

	India - encyclopedic entry (for timeline)
	English in India (excerpt)

Current Affairs

War and Peace - documentary by Anand Patwardhan

How we learned to love the bomb (Patwardhan)

Latest update (NPR radio Aug 20, 2002)

Comment on US slavery reparations by Dinesh D'Souza drawing on his experience of growing up in India

Slavery Reparations (audio file)

Picture 1: Ganesh - Hindu God

Literature

Salman Rushdie

	Biography - encyclopedic entry
	Rushdie on Roots, Rootlessness, Migration, on Being Between
	Salman Rushdie -- Theme and Subject
	Salman Rushdie -- Social and Political Contexts

Arundhati Roy

Michael Ondaatje

[Rudyard Kipling - Novel "Kim"]

A Guide to Literary Terms: metaphor, simile etc.

Picture 2: Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie - Literary work

	Midnight Children - Editorial Review
	Interview (Aug 2001) with Rushdie about his latest novel Fury NPR Archive
	Opening Pages of Midnight Children: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
	Interview with Rushdie about Midnight Children (1990)
	Link to in-depth interpretation of Midnight Children
	literary terms in context (simile, metaphor, symbol, allegory)
	Glossary to accompany Salman Rushdie
	Whose history, which narrator? (Imperial Archive)
	Klausuren: (1) (2)

Indian History

	Timeline of Indian History
	Mahatma Gandhi
	East India Company
	Sepoy Mutiny
	Martyrdom of Sardar Bhagat Singh
	The Song of Free India (Tagore)
	Architecture: Taj Mahal

Picture 4 caption: Indian Soldiers being executed by British canons - The aftermath of India's First War of Independence, 1858

Listening Comprehension:

	The Ayah House (by Sandra D'Arcy) - BBC Radio 4 "Afternoon Play"
	Kim - Rudyard Kipling's novel of an Anglo boy raised in India was published 100 years ago this year (NPR)
	Hindus and Muslims (NPR)
	India Cars (NPR)
	The English-Knowing Men (BBC R4) Roshan Doug discusses Mahatma Gandhi's controversial expression with fellow poets Moniza Alvi, Satyendra Srivastava and Mahendra Solanki.
	Raj to Riches (English in Calcutta) BBC
	Routes of English (BBC)
	Steam's Indian Summer (Video - Indian Railways FAQ)

Picture 3: Screenshot from Channel 4 Documentation:
The Edwardian House

"What was it that India found so attractive about British upper classes? Now I'm getting the chance to find out.”

Mr Raj Singh, tutor

The Ayah House
-see listening comprehension above
Background Information:

British Voices from India
(courtesy to J. Dolfen's research)

Picture 4: Ayah holding a European child,
Company School paintings, South India (Trichinopoly) on mica; c. 1860 (source: Britsih Voices from India (see above))