![]() The country has, in fact, twenty-two official languages, and of these, English is the most recent arrival. For reasons of both colonial history-most of India was under the rule of the British Empire, first through the East India Company and then directly for 190 years, from 1757 to 1947-and of a continuous wave of fiction from Indian writers in English since Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1981), both list-makers and editors seem to forget that India is in fact a country with 20,000 tongues, which are variations of over 120 distinct languages. ![]() ![]() ![]() Almost every time a literary publication in the Western Hemisphere commissions a list of the best novels from India, they turn out to be a compilation of books written in the English language. ![]()
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