Portrayal of Indian History and Politics in Shashi Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel
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Shashi Tharoor’s award winning work The Great Indian Novel showcases an allegorical representation of recent history and politics modelled on the ancient epic Mahabharata. . He has taken the epic as a blueprint and filled it with a contemporary cast for his witty sent-up of pre and post-independence India. The history of India’s struggle against colonial rule and her postcolonial tryst with democracy is presented in an epic vein. Tharoor’s strategy, bases on both the modern problematization of history and politics; and Indian traditions is both culturally appropriate and subversive in terms of internal affairs as well as imperial history and its modern legacies
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Bhargawa, Rajul ed. Indian Writing in English the Last Decade. Jaipur: Rawat Publication, 2002. Print.
Chaudhary, M.K. “The Eternal Present: Shashi Tharoor’s Story of India.” Recent Indian Fiction. Ed. R.S.Pathak. New Delhi: Prestige Books. 1994. Print.
Rajan, P.K. “Cultural and Political Autonomy in the Indian Context” News Quest. (Sep-Oct., 1994). Print.
Tharoor, Shashi. The Great Indian Novel. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1989. Print.
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