Paper Details

Name: Krishanu Adhikari
Country: India

Year: 2014
Volume: Volume-1, Issue-2 (July-December)
Page Number: 21-33

1930s marked the rise of Indian English Fiction, initially in the hands of the “Big three” of Indian English literature, i.e. Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, and R.K. Narayan. Since its inception, it has been open to the claims of political. During 1930s and 40s, the impact of Gandhian nationalism and Nehruvian politics are redolent enough in the novels. But with the passage of time the political themes in Indian English fiction take a crucial turn towards more complexity. The fusion of political ideologies and individual self pervades Indian English fiction from 1950s onwards. The women novelists of 1950s like Anita Desai and Kamala Markandya, among many others portray the psychological aspects of women in an essentially patriarchal Indian society, whereas the novelists like Arun Joshi and others focus mainly on the tainted nature of postcolnial Indian Politics. But the novelists from 1980s onwards not only highlighted the prevalent corruption in Indian politics and society. Rather they brought to the fore the gaps and silences in these dominant political ideologies and how these dominant voices suppress the voices of the others.