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The term literary canon is the recognition of a body of essential and authoritative writings. It ... more The term literary canon is the recognition of a body of essential and authoritative writings. It is constituted of a body of works that are highly valued by scholars and others because they have greater aesthetic value. Canon is not a body of writings that is 'correct', but it is a body of writings endorsed as most worth reading. This paper is a critical attempt to analyse the making of a new canon in Indian Writings of English through the works of Tagore, Premchand, Mulk Raj Anand and Prem Chand. Subsequent to years after 1835, English education strengthened the renaissance movement in India and gave rise to a rational and contemplative attitude among writers. Now Indian mind became more conscious of the flaws and evils that were prevalent in their own society and had nearly deprived it of its creative vigour and dynamism. The Indian canon laid its foundation amidst the Indian freedom movement and had little to do with what was happening in the European cultural-
The term literary canon is the recognition of a body of essential and authoritative writings. It ... more The term literary canon is the recognition of a body of essential and authoritative writings. It is constituted of a body of works that are highly valued by scholars and others because they have greater aesthetic value. Canon is not a body of writings that is 'correct', but it is a body of writings endorsed as most worth reading. This paper is a critical attempt to analyse the making of a new canon in Indian Writings of English through the works of Tagore, Premchand, Mulk Raj Anand and Prem Chand. Subsequent to years after 1835, English education strengthened the renaissance movement in India and gave rise to a rational and contemplative attitude among writers. Now Indian mind became more conscious of the flaws and evils that were prevalent in their own society and had nearly deprived it of its creative vigour and dynamism. The Indian canon laid its foundation amidst the Indian freedom movement and had little to do with what was happening in the European cultural-