• ISBN13: 9788171569113
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: N/A
• Publication Date: January 1, 2000
• Pages: 210
• Original Price: INR 395.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 360 grams

Myth-history combine marks the ruling motive of the Contemporary Indian Novel in English.
In Amitav Ghosh’s The Circle of Reason, reason makes a full circle and is subjected to subversion towards the end with a post-modern ambivalence.
In The Great Indian Novel, Shashi Tharoor is given to gigantism of history and makes great political personages parade on the dice game of national politics, as a part of post-colonial discourse.
Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children is an ‘enabling text’. The text synchronises the individual history with national history lending it a universal significance.
The texts seek to picture the socio-political situation of post-Independence India with a post-modern urgency.

Dr. A.S. Rao is a Selection Grade Lecturer in English in the Reader cadre working at Govt. (W) College Nalgonda (A.P.). He did his P.G. both in Philosophy and English from Osmania University, Hyderabad in 1972 and 1974 respectively. He obtained his M.Phil. from Osmania University, Hyderabad in 1992 on “Socio-cultural Aspects of Life in the Selected Novels of Raja Rao” under the supervision of Prof. C. Vijayasree. The M.Phil. dissertation was published by Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi in 1999. His article “Marx or Mahathma : Ideological Ambivalence in Comrade Kirillov” has been published in Indian Writings in English, Vol. IV edited by M.K. Bhatnagar. Myth and History in Contemporary Indian Novel in English : A Study of Selected Novels of Amitav Ghosh, Shashi Tharoor and Salman Rushdie is his second publicaton.
Dr. Rao is keenly interested in literary pursuits. He is an active functionary of Readers Forum Nalgonda. He is a member of IACLALS. Dr. Rao has been in Teachers’ Movement in A.P. for over two decades now and is closely associated with G.C.G.T.A., A.P. His collection of poetry a Volume each in Telugu and English is to come out shortly. He is writing a book in Telgu on Post-modernism at the request of his local friends.