R.K. Narayan And His Social Perspective (Hardcover-2024)

About the Book: R.K. Narayan and His Social Perspective deals with the caste-ridden Hindu society which Narayan presents in his novels. His Characters are fatalists—with explicit faith in the Invisible. The book presents their half-hearted attempts at self-assertion. However, their so-called sentimentalism does not bear fruit, and they fall back to their former position accepting defeat in life. The book vividly brings out Narayan’s attitude to life, his firm grip on the Hindu ethos of which he is the product, and his failure to come out of it though the West Wind has blown much of its dust. However detached, he sounds himself to the readers; his true spirit finds vivid expression in the book. At any rate R.K. Narayan is a thoroughly Indian Novelist par excellence, and that aspect is hard to be overlooked.

About the Author:

S.R. Ramteke (born. 20th October 1948) has obtained Ph.D. English from the Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University (formerly Nagpur University), Nagpur. He has been teaching English since 1972 and was promoted to Principal in 1982 at Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar College, Maharashtra. He has worked at various Bodies of Nagpur University, had several assignments on University committees and taught at the Postgraduate Department of English, attached to the college.

Dr. Ramteke’s bio-data is a rare privilege to have been included in Asia’s Who’s Who (Rifacimento International) and the World’s Who’s Who of Men and Women of Distinction (Curriculum Vitae International) published in 1997.