Modern Indian English Novel: A Critical Study of the Political Motif

The study is a painstaking probe into the unfolding of a hitherto ignored thematic and stylistic dimension of modern Indian English Fiction. Beginning with an in-depth analysis of the political underpinnings in the early phase, the study moves to a scholarly critique of the same in the post-Independence context. Indian English novel has been appraised as a human document, chronicling most credibly the political vicissitudes of the people in general. The crippling nature of the popular creed has been isolated as the cause of the personal as well as the political tragedy. The critique discovers in Gandhism a liberating panacea which later got ossified into a myth. The differing perceptions in novels of the light at the end of the tunnel forms part of the next stage of the scholarly argument. Last but not the least, the book examines the artistic modes of projection of the political motif.
A refreshing insight into Indian English Fiction, Indian socio-political psyche, the sociology of faith as well as the artistic amalgam of aesthetics and ideology in Indian literature.
An invaluable source book for researchers, teachers and students of literature, politics, sociology and philosophy.