Post-1947 Indian English Novel : Major Concerns

Contents: Preface. 1. The Bird\'s Eye view: The post-1947 Indian English political novel. 2. The blood-red dawn : Chaman Nahal\'s Azadi: a train to India. 3. The Miracle of integration: Manohar Malgonkar\'s The Princes: Father and Son. 4. Chasing the western ideologies/Raja Rao\'s Comrade Kirillov. 5. An ideological conflict and its resolution: Bhabani Bhattacharya\'s Shadow from Ladakh as a human document. 6. After Nehru What? Nayantara Sahgal\'s A Situation in New Delhi: open options and sinister rumblings. 7. Darkness at noon: the novel and the Tauma of the emergency. 8. Forever old yet new: Salman Rushdie\'s Midnight\'s children and the Bedrock of Indianess. 9. The Tainted Twin : Salman Rushdie\'s Shame: the Fantastic as the underside of satire. 10. Politics and beyond: Amitav Ghosh\'s The Shadow Lines: an intimacy with elsewhere. 11. The rise of terrorism: Salman Rushdie\'s Shalimar the clown: terrorism and its concomitants. 12. The "Two Indias\' Aravind Adiga\'s The White Tiger: Slumdog to Millionare. 13. Rumination: looking back and forward. 14. Select bibliography. Index.

"The present book by O.P. Mathur, an eminent scholar of Indian English Literature, embodies a new approach to the Indian political novel in English written after the achievement of independence, when the country began to face problems quite different from those of the earlier period. The book identifies many of those new concerns. Dr. Mathur first gives a panoramic survey of the political novel of about six decades from 1947 to 2008, and then he passes on to discuss quite a few important novels, each of which is focused upon one of those concerns. The book concludes with a chapter which contains meaningful pointers to the achievements and the future prospects of the Indian English Political novel of this period. The book is highly relevant for those interested in politics and should prove to be of interest and benefit to teachers, students and general readers alike, especially because its scope includes some of the important works of the twenty first century like Amitav Ghosh\'s Sea of Poppies, Indra Sinha\'s Animal\'s Men, Salman Rushdie\'s Shalimar the Clown and The Enchantress of Florence and Aravind Adiga\'s The White Tiger and Between the Assassinations."