This book establishes river fiction as an identifiable genre-fiction. It argues that rivers and riverbeds - through myths and legends, ecological and environmental concerns, geographical and historical realities, politics and economics around them - can provide an underlying framework to understand Indian prose fiction. With essays on river fiction across India, the volume presents a new way of understanding and reading South Asian literature.

The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature and literary criticism and South Asian studies.