18世纪开始,一些印度知识分子选择用英语写作,使印度出现了与其传统文学不一样的文学形式,具有明显的现代意识。不过,尽管英语对于印度这样的有着深厚文学传统的国家而言是殖民者的语言,但从一开始,印度英语诗歌就以表达本土现实和印度化的主题为己任,并由此产生了一些非常优秀的写作者。19世纪初的孟加拉教育家和诗人亨利·路易斯·维维安·代洛奇奥被 From the beginning of the eighteenth century, some Indian intellectuals chose to write in English, so that India has appeared in a different form of literature from its traditional literature and has obvious modern awareness. However, although English is a colonialist language for a country like India, where there is a deep literary tradition, English poetry from the very beginning has as its mission the theme of local reality and indigence, and has thus produced some very Excellent writer. Bengali educator and poet Henry Louis Vivendi de Lorozio in the early 19th century