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This chapter examines how Indian metropolitan cities as projected in contemporary Indian Writing in English (IWE) have led to the production of re-Orientalism. Through case studies of Manil Suri’s The City of Devi and Somnath Batabyal’s The Price You Pay, the chapter also analyses how in the recent past Indian cities, such as Bombay/Mumbai, New Delhi, and others, have been projected in post-millennial Indian fiction as sites of struggle, mimicry, and poverty, providing a re-Orientalist coherence and insistent (mis)representation of India’s postcoloniality.
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Dwivedi, O.P. (2014). Urban India Re-Orientalised. In: Re-Orientalism and Indian Writing in English. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137401564_4
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