Some advocate the study of Indian English literature from the western perspective, whereas the others demand the traditional Indian poetics as criterion for the assessment of Indian English literature. The present literary scene in India marks two contradictory orientations of literary appreciations: western and eastern. It views the post-1980s Indian English fiction as an alternative literary canon and claims for its different position. The paper hints at the need of the alternative literary canon and imparts some functions to it. This clearly implies that the western conception of canonicity must be altered as per the need of Indian literary scene. In fact, the canonicity of any literary text depends on race, milieu and moment of the nation where the text has originated. In India, it has been observed that the western notion of literary canon still determines the canonicity of Indian texts. In literary studies as well, there is a marked tendency of forming alternatives to deconstruct the colonial. This has significantly led to rise of ‘alternative/s’ in all the fields where the European conceptions have dominated for a long time. The theoretical prepositions developed in the postcolonial era often view the European concepts as the masked stratagem of intellectual colonialism.
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