This volume deals with a fascinating period (AD1800-AD1910) conspicuous by the growing complexities of multilingualism, changes in the modes of the literary transmission and in the readership and also by the dominance of the English language as an instrument of power in Indian Society. This part is a well documentaed narrative highlighting the totuous process of the Indian response to an alien literary tradition, its resistance and acceptance and the continuous tension between the foreign and the indigenous models.