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Volume 10 : 8 August 2010
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Socio-cultural Context of Communication in Indian Novel -
A Pragmatic Approach to Inside the Haveli

Umesh S. Jagadale, M.A., B.Ed., Ph.D.

Abstract

Novel has its own genre-specific features of communication. Indian novel is marked by certain culturally 'anchored linguistic choices' (Verschueren: 1999: 75). The communicational dominance of Indian socio-cultural context over the native variety of English is manifested through the use of literal translation, transliteration, paraphrasing etc.

Rama Mehta's Inside the Haveli (Mehta: 1977) showcases various culture-specific peculiarities of Indian English. The cultural shock of the protagonist evolves the communicational intricacies out of the changed socio-cultural context. The migration of the protagonist from one region to another changes and enlarges too the socio-cultural context of communication in this novel.

Though the novel mainly evolves the regional peculiarities of communication, at times the cultural canvas of regional setting is stretched to fit the national frame of multiculturalism in India. The present paper treats Inside the Haveli as the delimited area of the study of Indian novel, the socio-cultural context of communication as the topic of the study, whereas the pragmatic approach as the perspective of the study.

To sum up, the paper attempts to tap the multivalent socio-cultural context of communication outside and inside the 'haveli'.

Identity Crisis as the Major Focus

Rama Mehta's Inside the Haveli (Mehta: 1977) is a remarkable novel from the viewpoint of the communication in its socio-cultural context. It's the story of the protagonist Geeta's identity crisis in the cross-cultural context. Brought up in Bombay, Geeta the independent young woman struggles to maintain her modern identity in a traditional world of the haveli of Udaipur, where she is married off. The aristocratic culture of the haveli and the setting of Udaipur in Rajasthan evolve the socio-cultural context in the novel.

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Umesh S. Jagadale, M.A., B.Ed., Ph.D.
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