K.D.Verma examines the work of six Indian writers of the twentieth century who experienced both the colonial and postcolonial waves in Indian culture and have explored this theme in their writings in English. He reads the work of Sri Aurobindo, Mulk Raj Anand, Balachandra Rajan, Nissim Ezekiel, Arun Joshi, and Anita Desai, examining issues of representation and identity, colonial and post-colonial India, gender, power, and imperialism under a post-structuralist and sociohistorical lens.