Mulk Raj Anand: A Critical Spectrum

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 adequate case to point out the paradoxes and contradictions that plagued anand’s creative consciousness through a major phase of his life. But his underterred quest for the other harmony and ‘bliss’ is no less revealing. The present book makes an open ended reading of Anand. It is for the younger scholars to take cue from the present work and pursue future research projects on Indian Writing in English. I sincerely believe that this is a modest scholarly attempt but no less promising.