Identity Crisis in Syed Amanuddin’s “Dont Call Me Indo- Anglian”

Abstract

Indian Writing in English is an independent discipline in the world. It is no longer been a hothouse plant but a distinct branch of English Literature.  It is the outcome of many factors, like the British rule, the English Language as an official language in India, Westernized education system in India, study of Western thoughts, the impact of Western culture and the immigration. Indian English Writers use the English language in unique ways to express the Indian sensibility. The works of many distinguished Indian English Writers ascertain that English has been for them as natural as their own mother tongue. Nirad C. Chaudhri’s identity -structure seems shaped by the ‘catalytic power’ of the English language and literature as seen in The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian.  The poem, “An Introduction” illustrates the fact that the language Kamala Das uses becomes her own: