![]() ![]() But drama in English failed to serve a local theatrical habitation, in sharp contrast to plays in the mother tongue (both original and in the form of adaptations from foreign languages) and the appetite for plays in English could more conveniently be fed on performances of established dramatic successes in English by foreign authors. Early plays in India were written in Bengali by Bengali writers which were mostly translated into English from Bengali in the 19 th century. India's rediscovery of her identity became a vigorous, all-absorbing quest and when she had learnt enough from the West to progress from imitation and assimilation to creation. ![]() Mobile: 9493571291 Indian English literature really came of age after 1857. ![]()
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