Paper Details

Name: Archana Srivastava
Country: India

Year: 2015
Volume: Volume-2, Issue-1 (January-June)
Page Number: 54-57

India is one of the ancient civilizations in the world with its rich cultural heritage, classical traditions, idealizing a god like hero, the list is endless. It has achieved multi faceted socio-economic progress during the last five decades. It has moved forward displaying remarkable progress in the field of agriculture, industry, technology and above all literature. Though Indians like Ram Mohan Roy started writing in English way back since the Indian Renaissance of the 19th Century. This legacy got full bloom during the 20th Century with the writings of pioneers like Sarojini Naidu, Rabindranath Tagore and Aurobindo Ghosh. While English prose for social and political purposes was written by Indians from earliest times, the excellence in the writing of creative prose could be achieved much later than the verse. But despite its late start the Indo Anglian novel has gone far ahead and it was only with the Gandhian struggle for freedom, the Indo Anglian novel came of its own. The ideas of the struggle are reflected in the masterpieces like K.S.Venkataramani’s Murugan. The Tiller (1972) Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable (1935) and Coolie (1936) and Raja Rao’s Kanthapura (1938).