The book, it is hoped, will be of use to the scholars who take up Indian English fiction for their research and also to all those who are interested in familiarising themselves with the recent trends in this area. Indian Eiction, humanism, language and style, ontology, nationalism, subjectivity, feminism, social, historical and psychological realism, ambivalence, joys and sorrows of womanhood, religious tolerance, dialectics of enchained sensibility, irony, ecology, identity crisis, politics and ecology of print culture.