• ISBN13: 9788126930937
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: N/A
• Publication Date: June 15, 2020
• Pages: 156
• Original Price: INR 595.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 290 grams

Raja Rao: A Study of His Novels represents Raja Rao’s fictional world from a refreshingly new perspective. It offers a comprehensive account of the philosophical content in his novels and traces the patterns of interaction between Indian metaphysical tradition and the culture of the West. The book shows how Raja Rao has developed his Vedantic Tantric weltanschauung through absorption of similar motifs propounded by certain prominent Western writers. The study of this twin insemination, dealt in depth and subtlety, makes a significant contribution to Indo-English scholarship.
The book contains eight chapters along with Notes, Select Bibliography, and Index. Chapters included in this book are The Philosophical Concerns of Raja Rao, Kanthapura and Gandhism, The Serpent and the Rope: From Vedanta to Tantra, The Cat and Shakespeare: A Tantric Prayer, Comrade Kirillov: A Critique of Communism, The Chessmaster and his Moves: A Saga of Love, The Western Overtones, and The Narrative Skill.

Dr. P. Dayal has taught English Literature to postgraduate students at Punjabi University, Patiala. He worked on the philosophical vision of Raja Rao and presented his dissertation to his university for which he earned his Ph.D. degree. He has published several papers in reputed journals and written comprehensive critiques of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, Shakespeare’s King Henry IV, and Golding’s The Inheritors.