This volume covers the syllabus for Discipline Course 1, Semester 1 for students of English under the erstwhile Four Year Undergraduate Programme of the University of Delhi. Beginning with a poem of H.L.V. Derozio and closing with a short story by Aravind Adiga, it also includes readings by noted commentators on the development of Indian writing in English. It carries comprehensive introductions to the history of the development of Indian Literature in English spanning over one hundred years, as also extensive headnotes to introduce individual poetry and prose selections. The texts and the authors chosen represent various geographical and cultural variations in terms of caste, class, linguistic background and domicile. The writers featured in this text are: H.L.V. Derozio, Nissim Ezekiel, Kamala Das, Robin S. Ngangom, Mulk Raj Anand, Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, Aravind Adiga, Raja Rao, Meenakshi Mukherjee and Bruce King.