The present book is sincere attempt to read Anand historically and culturally. Dr. Farhana Khan has elaborately discussed some of the basic issues that Anand takes up in his fiction. Rending caste, class, gender and subjectivity from a series of subject positions. Anand blends the minutiae of social and cultural life with material from his own life and personal experience, releasing, thereby, tremendous creative force and critical energy. Dr. Mrs. Khan has taken ...