Mulk Raj Anand

This article explores the spirit of postcolonialism in the writings of Mulk Raj Anand. In his novels Untouchable and Coolie he not only reflects the exploitation of his contemporary society but also he has posed strong objection to the system. The society was ridden with so many categories of social exploitations based on religion, caste, class, poverty, education, marriage and sex. Anand in his fictional writings stages a three-fold protest against the political domination of colonialism, the economic exploitation of feudalism and capitalism and the religious bigotry of Hinduism. Anand’s emergence as a protest writer is thus the natural outcome of his exposure to man’s inhumanity to men which reached his apogee during the colonial era.…

Saadat Hasan Manto is one of the greatest short story writers in Urdu literature who has produced twenty two collections of short stories dealing with different subjects such as partition, human life, social taboos, communal violence, so on and so forth. His stories revolving round the subject of partition of the subcontinent after independence in 1947 are more famous and more known than his other stories. Toba Tek Singh is one such story, a masterpiece, which is interwoven with the theme of…

The colonial powers also use to exploit, suppress and oppress their colonies and people of colonies to the extent they lose everything they have. But there is another aspect of this story. For their own benefit they implemented several changes and improvised systems that eventually impacted Indian society to a great extent. These changes were related to Education, caste system, condition of women and modernization of agriculture etc. In Mulk Raj Anand’s Novel we find all aspects of British rule,…

the embodiment of truth. He spoke the truth, whatever the cost. The acknowledged his weakness by writing “My Experiments with Truth”. He believed in The Bhagwat Gita. He led a simple life and tried to purge the Indian society of the evil of caste system. His dress was minimal, his requirements were the bare necessities and he preferred spiritual poise over materialism. He bore no ill will towards Britishers and advocated the path of ‘Ahimsa’ for freedom struggle. His ‘Quit India’ movement was…

self-consuming nature of violence does not apply because basically he is a non-violent character. Sundari kills Shafi under compulsive and unavoidable circumstances and survives in the novel. In this novel Malgonkar has fused personal political and historical perspectives in functional terms. It will be pertinent if we sum up the novel by calling it as a practical manifestation of Gandhi’s theory of non-violence. By beginning of this novel by Gandhiji's words, Malgonkar has shown his proclivity…

belief that she would have no reason to find his presence in the world around her. It also reflects the secret of their love and also able to find the answer within the depth of her that, it is foolish to search him nature because he lives in her own heart and she must look for him in her heart but in the wind or wave or flowering dell. They are true lovers and live in each other’s hearts. “I am of thee, as a thou of me, a part Look for me in the mirror of thy heart” The concluding lines show…

Currently, more than a billion people are liberally occupying India because of the courageous actions one man took against the British Raj (or British Rule). Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, born on October 2, 1869, grew up in the small town of Porbandar and became a world-renowned political and spiritual leader who would be valued by many people under the British rule ("Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (1869-1948)"). There are a limited amount of people in history who have accomplished what Gandhi did…

Very few people have changed the course of history. Even less have helped to create a country, yet Muhammad Ali Jinnah has done both. He was a lawyer, a politician, and he was the man who led the act of creating Pakistan, a country in South Asia. This astonishing performance happened in 1947, years after Jinnah wanted it to be reality. Jinnah had a large role in the creation of Pakistan and left a questionable legacy in the process. Years before, and during the creation of Pakistan, India was…

Throughout history, humans have constantly held the desire to achieve more, to find more, to be more. Greed sparked this desire in humans and as a result humans have achieved amazing feats. Greed contributed heavily to the idea of the caste system; greed began exploration, exchange, and encounters between societies and new land. Along those lines, greed was the catalyst that set off the rule of the British Raj, the fleet from Great Britain sent to colonize India in 1857. The greedy British Raj…

1 Imperialism: this one word is used to represent a complicated concept. Imperialism is defined by Dictionary.com as “the extension of an empire over a nation”, essentially one nation taking over another and proceeding to control it. Imperialism has been evident throughout history, and one of the most prominent examples is the British takeover of India. Indian civilization dates back more than five-thousand years (Culture Grams Online Addition Web) and has a history of oligarchies, split…