Narayan is best known for his trilogy comprised of Swami and Friends (1935), The Bachelor of Arts (1937), and The English Teacher (1945).
Works of interest concerning Narayan include: "The Politics of R.K. Narayan," in Imagining India (1989) by Richard Cronin; "R.K. Narayan: The View from the Window," in Babu Fictions: Alienation in Contemporary Indian English Novels (2001) by Tabish Khair; "The Great Narayan," in the New York Review of Books (2001) by Pankaj Mishra; R.K. Narayan: A Critical Appreciation (1982) by William Walsh.
For works by other leading authors in early Indian literature in English, please see: Mulk Raj Anand's novels Untouchable (1935), The Village (1939), Across the...
