DATE AUTHOR'S LIFE LITERARY CONTEXT 1961 The Man-Eater of Malgudi. Markandaya: A Silence of Desire.

Naipaul: A House for Mr Biswas.

Heller: Catch-22.

Spark: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

1962 Malgonkar: Combat of Shadows.

Nabokov: Pale Fire.

Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the

Life of Ivan Denisovich.

1963 Malgonkar: The Princes.

Markandaya: Possession.

1964 My Dateless Diary: An American Journey (travel book). Gods, Demons and Others (retelling of stories from the Sanskrit religious epics). Meets Graham Greene briefly while visiting London. Malgonkar: A Bend in the Ganges.

Naipaul: An Area of Darkness.

Bellow: Herzog.

1965 Opening of Survival, the film based on The Guide. Jnanpith Award, Indian literary prize, established. Das: Summer in Calcutta (poems).

Moraes: John Nobody (poems).

Rao: Cat and Shakespeare.

Scott: Raj Quartet (to 1975).

1966 Tagore: The Housewarming.

Markandaya: A Handful of Rice.

Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita.

1967 The Vendor of Sweets. Das: The Descendants.

Mrquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude.

1968 Play version of The Guide, by Patricia Rinehart and Harvey Breit, opens on Broadway on 6 March and closes within a week. Solzhenitsyn: Cancer Ward.

1969 Markandaya: The Coffer Dams.

1970 A Horse and Two Goats (short stories).

1971 Tagore: The Broken Nest.

1972 The Ramayana (shortened modern prose version of the Indian epic). Malgonkar: The Devil's Wind.

HISTORICAL EVENTS.

Third Five Year Plan in India propels the country into the ranks of the ten most industrialized nations; India's population rises to 434 million. Goa liberated from Portuguese rule. John F. Kennedy elected US President. Erection of Berlin Wall. Yuri Gagarin becomes first man in space.

Sino-Indian border clashes lead to threats of Chinese invasion. Cuban missile crisis.

Assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Death of Nehru; succeeded by Shastri. Khrushchev deposed and replaced by Brezhnev.

Indo-Pakistan War. Tamil riots against Hindi language; English confirmed as official language of India.

Mrs Indira Gandhi, daughter of Nehru, becomes Prime Minister of India.

Arab Israeli Six-Day War. Population of India reaches 500 million.

Student unrest in US and throughout Europe. Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. Assassination of Martin Luther King. Nixon US President. India refuses to sign Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The Beatles arrive in India for transcendental meditation with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Americans land first man on the moon.

The shooting of tigers is banned in India.

Revolt in East Pakistan, state of emergency, formation of Bangladesh. Indira Gandhi strips Indian princes of their titles and abolishes privy purses. Pakistan leaves the Commonwealth. President Amin expels Ugandan Asians.

DATE AUTHOR'S LIFE LITERARY CONTEXT 1973 Das: The Old Playhouse and Other Poems. Markandaya: Two Virgins.

Jhabvala: A New Dominion.

Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow.

Solzhenitsyn: The Gulag Archipelago (to 1975).

1974 My Days: A Memoir. Reluctant Guru (essays). Das: My Story autobiography).