TY - BOOK AU - Mukherjee, Meenakshi TI - The Perishable Empire: Essays on Indian Writing in English SN - 0-19-566270-9 U1 - 820.9954 23rd ed. PY - 2000/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press N1 - Part-1 Nation, novel, language Rajmohan's wife: The first Indian English novel Churning the seas of Treacle: Three ways Ambiguous discourse: The novels of Krupa Satthianadhan Hearing her own voice: Defective Acoustics in colonial India Part-2 'We say Desh': The other nirad babu Maps and mirrors: Co-ordinates of meaning in the shadow lines Haroun and the sea of stories: Fantasy or fable The anxiety of Indianness Divided by a common language ER -