• ISBN13: 9788126902255
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: N/A
• Publication Date: June 21, 2003
• Pages: 264
• Original Price: INR 495.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 410 grams

The study is a painstaking probe into the unfolding of a hitherto ignored thematic and stylistic dimension of modern Indian English Fiction. Beginning with an in-depth analysis of the political underpinnings in the early phase, the study moves to a scholarly critique of the same in the post-Independence context. Indian English novel has been appraised as a human document, chronicling most credibly the political vicissitudes of the people in general. The crippling nature of the popular creed has been isolated as the cause of the personal as well as the political tragedy. The critique discovers in Gandhism a liberating panacea which later got ossified into a myth. The differing perceptions in novels of the light at the end of the tunnel forms part of the next stage of the scholarly argument. Last but not the least, the book examines the artistic modes of projection of the political motif. A refreshing insight into Indian English Fiction, Indian socio-political psyche, the sociology of faith as well as the artistic amalgam of aesthetics and ideology in Indian literature. An invaluable source book for researchers, teachers and students of literature, politics, sociology and philosophy.

Dr. M.K. Bhatnagar is Professor, Department of English, M.D. University, Rohtak (Haryana), India. A distinguished scholar and a veteran teacher of about three decades’ standing, he has been Chairman, Department of English, M.D. University, Rohtak and also Chairman, State Inter-University Common Syllabi Committee in English of Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra and M.D. University, Rohtak. Having been selected for the prestigious Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship, Professor Bhatnagar has been a U.G.C.-empanelled Resource Person and part of the Guest Faculty at a number of U.G.C-sponsored Refresher Courses for College Lecturers. He has also chaired individual sessions at national seminars. He has been a U.G.C. Fellow at Panjab University, Chandigarh and a U.G.C. Research Associate at University of Poona, Poona. He successfully completed as Principal Investigator a major U.G.C. project of an inter-disciplinary nature on Indian English Literature. Recently he has been selected under a UNESCO-sponsored Faculty Enrichment Programme to work as Professor of English at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia. Professor Bhatnagar’s publications include, besides a number of research articles in prestigious journals in India and abroad, Political Consciousness in Indian English Writing, Perspectives and The Fiction of Nayantara Sahgal. His areas of interest are : Literary Theory, Comparative Literature, Commonwealth and Indian English Literature and Third World Fiction.