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Volume 17:9 September 2017
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Portrayal of Bakha and Bhikhu as Victimized Heroes:
M. R. Anand’s Untouchable and The Road

Dr. S. Chelliah, M.A, Ph.D.


Abstract

This paper is an attempt to project the novel as literary phenomenon almost something new to India a bit away from the respectable position the Epics, Lyrics, dramas, short-stories and fables have enjoyed and glorified in India with a focus on the contribution of some novelists like Chandra Dutt, Bankim Chandra Chatterji, Rabindranath Tagore, Raja Rao, R. K. Narayan in general and Mulk Raj Anand is particular. It beautifully analyses the dominant role of M. R. Anand in the current literary scenario of Indian English Fiction as a literary stalwart whose literary skill lies in his handling of a variety of social problems rather impressively in a humanistic manner, steering the Indian English Fiction to the unexplored regions where the tears and sweats of the oppressed & suppressed sections of people remain unheeded by most writers. It neatly examines the portrayal of Bakha and Bhikhu as victimized heroes as projected by Mulk Raj Anand in his Untouchable and The Road respectively with his remarkable application of the Stream of Consciousness technique.

Keywords: social problem, victimization, bottom dogs of society, pathetic life, untouchables, literary phenomenon, social realism, artistic narration.

Novel as Literary Phenomenon

The novel as literary phenomenon is something new to India. Epics, Lyrics, Dramas, Short stories and fables have their respectable ancestries, going back by several centuries, but it is only during a period of little more than a century that the novel – the long sustained piece of prose fiction- has occurred and taken roots in India. The Indo- Anglian novel since its genetic has passed through three main phases. The first one is the phase of the historical novel which was short- lived, while the second phase was the Socio-political novel with a stress on social realism that was ‘long – lived’. The third phase is the phase of the psychological novel revealing a concern for the inner life of the individual. The earliest Indian novels written in Bengali are supposed to have been the foster mother of Indo- Anglian fiction. Some Bengali novelists like Ramesh Chandra Dutt, Bankim Chandra Chatterji and Rabindranath Tagore proved a great influence on the early Indo- Anglian novelists. Raja Rao enriched the Indian fiction with highly poetic prose and artistic narration. Following Raja Rao, the novelists like Mulk Raj Anand, R.K.Narayaan, D.F. Karaka, Ahmed Abbas and Ahmed Ali and many others contributed rather immensely to the growth and development of the Indo-Anglian fiction.

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Dr. S. Chelliah, M.A., Ph.D.
Professor, Head & Chairperson
School of English & Foreign Languages &
School of Indian Languages
Department of English & Comparative Literature
Madurai Kamaraj University
Madurai - 625 021
Tamilnadu
India
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