The present volume is a collection of twenty one research papers on Indian novelists ranging from Venkataramani to Chetan Bhagat; issues spanning from nationalism and partition to gen next and these novelist are approached form different perspectives like feminist, socio-cultural, psychological and also stylistic. The anthology seeks to present to the readers a wealth of scholarship. It includes two comprehensive papers on R.K. Narayan’s novels. One each on Venktaramani, R. Jhabvala, Anita Desai, Nayantara Sahgal besides one synoptic paper on Nationalism in Indian English Novels.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Chhote Lal Khatri
Dr. Chhote Lal Khatri born in 1965 in Jehanabad, Bihar, had his early education at local schools, graduated with Honours in English from College of Commerce, Patna and did his M.A. in English and Ph.D. from Patna University, Patna. His doctoral research was on "Vivekananda: An Appraisal (A Critique of his speeches and writings)" which was subsequently published by Prestige Books, New Delhi in the year 2000. He is a bilingual poet writing in English and Hindi. His first Hindi Poetry collection and second one in English are in Press. His poems are widely published and anthologized in India and abroad. He edits Cyber Literature, a biannual journal of international repute devoted to poetry and criticism. He is also one of the editors of his College magazine Sanket. He has to his credit about three dozen research papers and forty reviews. He was honoured and felicitated by Michal Madhusudan Academy, Kolkata for his book Kargil, in 2002. He is on the advisory board of A.B.I., U.S.A. His brief biographical note is included in several Directories of A.B.I., U.S.A. and I.B.C. England. He has been teaching English literature since 1993. Currently he is a lecturer in the Dept. of English T.P.S. College, Patna.
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