Political Novel : The Beaten Track and the Path Ahead

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. The idea of dominance/Jaba Kusum Singh and Sandhya Saxena. 2. Subaltern concern: a socio-political study of Mulk Raj Anand\'s novels/Manju Srivastava and Sadhya Saxena. 3. Gandhi the Messiah: a study of Kanthapura and Shadow from Ladakh/Jaba Kusum Singh. 4. Mimic men: a political reading of the early fictional works of V.S. Naipaul/Preeti Gautam. 5. Humanity in calamity a comparative study of Azadi and train to Pakistan/Madhubala Saxena. 6. Manohar Malgonkar\'s tryst with destiny: a bend in the Ganges/Sharda Iyer. 7. Humanism in Chaman Nahal\'s Azadi/Sanjay Johari. 8. Anita Desai\'s clear light of day: a study of polarization of family strata in post colonial India/Nilofar Akhtar. 9. Politics power values a reappraisal of post Independence politics through the study of Nayantara\'s fictional Cosmos/Sadhya Saxena. 10. Nayantara Sahgal\'s rich like us: political novel as non fiction/R.G. Hegde...

Being the unacknowleged legislator of the world a literary artist derives substance for his legislation from diverse sources including politics. In the bewildering modern world which witnesses the over throw of existing conceptualized versions and definitions political situations have also altered astonishingly. Politics, today has acquired awesome dimensions. Socio-political dialectics dominate the global society and resultantly the world of literature too. (jacket)