1890s: English readers are fascinated by portrayals of "exotic" British colonies like India, written primarily by British writers such as Rudyard Kipling and E. M. Forster, who offer depictions of India from the perspective of the British colonizer.
Today: Ethnic Indian writers and novelists writing in English, such as Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy, offer the early twenty-first-century, English-language readership award-winning work portraying the life and culture of India from an Indian perspective.
1890s: England commands the largest worldwide empire, spanning the globe, and India is one of its largest and most important components.
Today: India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, formerly the Indian.....
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