LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13:8 August 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Quest for Identity in Socio-Political Turmoil with reference to Nayantara Sahgal’s Rich Like Us

Selvalakshmi. S and Dr. Girija Rajaram

Responsive to Socio-economic and Cultural Reality

Indian English Fiction has always been responsive to the changes in socio-economic-cultural reality and theoretical perspectives that have impacted and governed its growth since the time of its inception. At the earlier stage the fictional works of writers like Mulk Raj Anand, R.K.Narayan and Raja Rao were mainly concerned with the down-trodden of the society, the Indian middle class life and expression of traditional cultural ethos of India. At that time, and even onto a much later stage, when writers like K. S. Venkataramani, Markandaya, Bhabani Bhattacharya, Chaman Nahal, Ruth Prava Jhabvala, Nayantara Sahagal, Arun Joshi and Khwshwant Sigh wrote, Indian English fiction concentrated on the depiction of the social reality of the times.

Nayantara Sahgal’s Creativity

Nayantara Sahgal has written nine novels and eight works of non-fiction. She is the recipient of the Sinclair Prize for Fiction, the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. A member of the Sahitya Akademi’s Advisory Board for English till she resigned during the Emergency, Sahgal served on the jury of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 1990 and 1991. She has held fellowships in the United States at the Bunting Institute, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the National Humanities Center. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was awarded an honorary doctorate in literature by the University of Leeds in 1997. She is associated with the founding of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties and served as its vice-president during the 1980s.

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Selvalakshmi. S.
Research Scholar
Department of English
Karpagam University
Coimbatore-641021
Tamilnadu
India
selva.lakshmi85@gmail.com

Dr. Girija Rajaram
Research Supervisor, Karpagam University
Principal
K.G. Arts and Science College
Coimbatore
Tamilnadu
India
principal@kgcas.ac.in
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