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Arvind Mehrotra

A History of Indian Literature in English
by Arvind Mehrotra

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra was born in Lahore and educated at the universities of Allahabad and Bombay. The journal Fulcrum has said that his poems are “coded messages from the unconscious, but [that] there is an exceedingly conscious hand that crafts them.”

A History of Indian Literature in English, which he edited, was awarded the Choice magazine’s Outstanding Academic Title of the Year. Translator from the Prakrit, and author of four collections of poems, including, most recently The Transfiguring Places, Mehrotra is Professor of English and Chair of the Department at the University of Allahabad.

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