“Professor K R S Iyengar is the chief living authority on ‘Indo-Anglian Literature’. If he did not actually invent this useful term, he has certainly popularised it in his numerous published works. Now he has added to his many services to literary scholarship by publishing a comprehensive and masterly survey of the whole body of writing in the English language by Indian writers.” Prof V de Sola Pinto in The Modern Language Review “The book is almost encyclopaedic in scope and reflects Dr Iyengar’s erudite scholarship in this special field and his penchant for objective evaluation and concinnity of expression.” Dr C Kondapi in The Education Quarterly “Really a new landscape has been explored. (Prof Iyengar’s) is a richly stored mind and his critical estimates are pertinent writing, discerning and illuminating, and the language has the rich leaven of analytical thought and creative power ... ” The Amrita Bazar Patrika “This scholarly study is the work of a sharp and profoud critic of literature.” The Sunday Tribune “... the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the by-no-means-barren field of Indo-Anglian literature.” D Anjaneyulu in New India Weekly “... here is a book for the literary person, for the student of English and of Indian writing in English.” Commonwealth Today Introduction to the Study of English Literature K R Srinivasa Iyengar & Prema Nandakumar “Professor Iyengar and Dr Prema Nandakumar have undertaken and successfully concluded a major task in compressing into this book a combination of diverse elements – literary theory, linguistic and literary history, cultural history and the history of ideas.” British Book News “This Introduction is solidly based on extensive knowledge illustrated by wide reading and that clearness of focus that helps to clarify the confused notions of the classical and the romantic style, poetic prose, and the aim of the writer of prose fiction.” Fr L D Murphy in The Hindu “This Introduction ... remains a pioneering work and indicates the direction which Indian literary criticism will have to take in the coming generations.” K N S in The Times of India “It is a good ‘Introduction’ in that it opens up possibilities for viewing English literature in its own traditions and forms as well as in its relation to literature in other languages.”