Arrange the following in the chronological order of the date/year of publication:
(A) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Mistress of Spices
(B) Anand Giridhar Das’s India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking
(C) V.S. Naipaul’s India: A Wounded Civilisation
(D) Bharati Mukherjee’s Desirable Daughters
(E) Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

The correct option is (C), (E), (A), (D), (B).

To arrange these works in chronological order of their publication, we look at the publication year for each book:
1. (C) India: A Wounded Civilisation by V.S. Naipaul was published in 1977. It is an analytical work of non-fiction about India during the Emergency period.
2. (E) Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie was published in 1981. This landmark postcolonial novel deals with India's transition from British colonial rule to independence.
3. (A) The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni was published in 1997. This novel blends magical realism with the immigrant experience in America.
4. (D) Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee was published in 2002. The novel explores themes of sisterhood, identity, and the Indian diaspora.
5. (B) India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking by Anand Giridharadas was published in 2011. It is a non-fictional chronicle of the author's return to a changing modern India.

Arranging the publication years chronologically:
1977 (C) ⇒ 1981 (E) ⇒ 1997 (A) ⇒ 2002 (D) ⇒ 2011 (B)

Therefore, the correct chronological sequence is (C), (E), (A), (D), (B).