Critical Studies on Indian Fiction in English

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The essays in this anthology focus on many aspects of Indian Fiction in English. It seeks to probe discuss and analyse the issues arising out of the novels and offers deep insight to the readers. Important novelists covered in the volume are R.K. Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand, Anita Desai, Geeta Mehta, Salman Rushdie, Kavery Nambisan, Nayantara Sahgal, Arun Joshi, Shobha De and Arundhati Roy.

Contents: Preface. 1. Is Mulk Raj Anand’s untrouchable dirty/Ramesh K. Srivastava. 2. Mothers and mother-figures in Anita Desais Novels/Usha Bande. 3. Wom,en in the early novels of R.K. Narayan Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand/Michel Pousse. 4. History fiction and colonialism: a study of Gita Mehta’s Raj/K.C. Baral and Dhira Bhowmick. 5. Six hundred and thirty-five day long midnight : Rushdie’s representation of Indira Gandhi’s emergency/K. Purushottham. 6. Ethnopoetics: cultural fictions in Kavery Nambisan’s the scent of pepper/Pramod K. Nayar. 7. Ruskin bond as children’s writer/Ragini Ramachandra. 8. The new symbols of colonial India/R. Veena. 9. Theodore dreiser and American dream/l. Jeganatha Raja. 10. Kamala Markandaya’s the golden honeycomb as a postcolonial novel/M.A. Jeyaraju and D. Miruthula. 11. Hero as picaro: Farrukh Dhondy’s Bombay duck/V.L.V.N. Narendra Kumar. 12. Women in marriage: novels of Nayantara Sahgal and Shashi Deshpande/T. Ashoka Rani. 13. Man and destiny: a study of Arun Joshi’s the foreigner/R.A. Singh. 14. The treatment of Hinduism in Mrs. Sahgal’s a time to be happy this time of morning and strom in Chandigarh/M. Narendra. 15. The dialectics of self-assertion: the liberated woman in Shobha de’s sisters/E. Satyanarayana. 16. The manifold use of simile in Arundhati Roy’s The God of small things/P. Hari Padma Rani. 17. Commonwealth or uncommonwealth-quarrels over naming the new literature/S. Krishna Sarma.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR R A Singh

The Author is a retired Brigadier from the Indian Army. He is a recipient of Vishist Seva Medal from the President of India and a commendation card from the Army Chief for his meritorious services. He has participated in three wars and has lot of operational experience, of active insurgency and terrorism. He has also held a number of important command and staff assignments in the Army. Is a graduate from the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington and Msc in Defence studies from Madras University. He is also qualified in Human Resource Development from All India Institute of Management studies, Chennai. Has travelled far and wide upto the remotest corner of India and has visited almost all the Asian and European countries. He has a spiritual leanings and has studied most of our scriptures and religious books. He believes that spirituality is the only solution for all the sufferings of Human beings in the present day materialistic world.