Commonwealth Literature in English: Past and Present is an Anthology of more than a dozen critical Research papers of various scholars of English literature. It covers various authors of Commonwealth Countries like India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, South Aferica, Australia, Japan and Trinidad, and critically explores almost all the aspects of the writings of the authors of the aforesaid countries. The authors whose works have been critically analysed in this book are : Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Manohar Malgonkar, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Arundhati Roy, Amitav Ghosh, Asif Currimbhoy, Kazua Ishigura, Yasmine Gunaratne, Bharati Mukherjee, VS. Naipaul, Peggy Payne, Bapsi Sidhwa, Tehmina Durani, Margaret Laurence, Carl Jung, Nadine Gordimer, Chinua Achebe, Taslima Nasrin, Patrick White and some short story writers of Sri Lanka.The book, it is hoped, will certainly be warmly received by die students, teachers, lovers and research scholars of English literature.