How did English/ English Studies gain support and consolidation in post independent India?

Teachers continued to prescribe at thew Arnold, Cleanth Brooks, T S Eliot, F R Leavis and E M W Tillyard. There was no scope for critical intervention from lndian critics or academics. Even the few scholars who wrote on English authors preferred to get their works published abroad. They believed that a western publishing house gave them greater name and credibility.

For instance, respected critics like B Rajan who wrote commendable, scholarly books on Milton got his books published overseas. The Indian university teachers while providing a reading list to their under-graduate and post-graduate students always put down books and critics published. Here again, we will notice a circuitous, recurring pattern. Publishing houses did not encourage local talent. Academics sought credibility by getting their works published abroad.