Rikki-Tikki-Tavi | Compare and Contrast

1890s: English readers are fascinated by portrayals of ‘‘exotic’’ British colonies like India, written primarily by British writers such as Rudyard Kipling and E. M. Forster, who offer depictions of India from the perspective of the British colonizer.

Today: Ethnic Indian writers and novelists writing in English, such as Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy, offer the early twenty-firstcentury, English-language readership awardwinning work portraying the life and culture of India from an Indian perspective.

1890s: England commands the largest...

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