Abstract

The term �resistance� has always been in vogue in the socio-political context of India. With the advent of Europeans, the term gained more ground, deeply founding itself on the ideologies of nationhood and sovereignty. The politics of resistance cohabits with identity politics, the dynamics of nationalism and the enrooted demand for freedom. In this paper, the historical inchoation of Indian English literature as a dimension of resistance politics in India is discussed. A space for concrete dialectic carved out by Indian English literature forms an explanatory foundation for emancipatory politics in literature which is more politically subjective, unlike the predecessors. The paper looks upon how the historical advent of colonialism and thereby colonial modernity heralded the dawn of Indian English literature and the evolutionary process, the very terminology had to undergo. Moreover, this examines the various dispositions which enable Indian English literature, in the words of Michaes Necosmos, �to act as a representation of social space

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