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Bhat, Sami Ullah. "Indian English Fiction: Seeding to Efflorescence." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 9, no. 2 (2024): 195–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.92.28.

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Indian English literature began as an interesting by-product of an eventful encounter in the late eighteenth century between a vigorous and enterprising Britain and a stagnant and chaotic India. As a result of this encounter as F.W. Bain puts it ‘India a withered trunk… suddenly shot out with foreign foliage’. The first problem that confronts the historian of Indian English literature is to define its nature. The question has been made rather complicated owing to two factors: first this body of writing has, from time to time, been designated variously as ‘Indo-Anglian literature’, ‘Indian Writing in English’ and ‘Indo-English literature’. Secondly the failure to make clear-cut distinctions has also often led to confusion between categories such as ‘Anglo-Indian literature’, literature in the Indian languages translated into English and original composition in English by Indians. Thus, in his A Sketch of Anglo-Indian Literature (1908), E.F. Oaten considers the poetry of Henry Derizio as a part of ‘Anglo-Indian literature’ the same critic in his essay on Anglo-Indian literature in the Cambridge of English Literature includes Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Rabindranath Tagore and Arvindo Ghose among ‘Anglo-Indian writers along with F.W. Bain and F.A. Steel.

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Abbas, Abbas. "The Racist Fact against American-Indians in Steinbeck’s The Pearl." ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 3, no. 3 (September 25, 2020): 376–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.34050/elsjish.v3i3.11347.

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the social conditions of Indians as Native Americans for the treatment of white people who are immigrants from Europe in America. This research explores aspects of the reality of Indian relations with European immigrants in America that have an impact on discriminatory actions against Indians in John Steinbeck's novel The Pearl. Social facts are traced through fiction as part of the genetics of literary works. The research method used is genetic structuralism, a literary research method that traces the origin of the author's imagination in his fiction. The imagination is considered a social reality that reflects events in people's lives. The research data consist of primary data in the form of literary works, and secondary data are some references that document the background of the author's life and social reality. The results of this research indicate that racist acts as part of American social facts are documented in literary works. The situation of poor Indians and displaced people in slums is a social fact witnessed by John Steinbeck as the author of the novel The Pearl through an Indian fictional character named Kino. Racism is an act of white sentiment that discriminates against Native Americans, namely the Indian community.

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Prasad, Amar Nath. "The Non-fictions of V.S. Naipaul: A Critical Exploration." Creative Saplings 1, no. 8 (2022): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.56062/gtrs.2022.1.8.168.

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V. S. Naipaul is an eminent literary figure in the field of modern fiction, non-fiction, and travelogue writing in English literature. He earned a number of literary awards and accolades, including the covetous Nobel Prize and Booker Prize. His non-fiction e.g., An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization, The Loss of El Dorado, India: A Million Mutinies Now and Beyond Belief are a realistic portrayal of the various types of religion, culture, customs, and people of India. As an author, the main purpose of V. S. Naipaul is to deliver the truth; because poets are the unacknowledged legislators of mankind. The fact that V. S. Naipaul has presented in his non-fiction is more authentic and realistic than that of his fiction. Nonetheless, it is fictional work that is elaborately explored, discussed, and analyzed in abundance. On the other hand, his non-fiction, by and far, remains aloof. In the last few decades, non-fictions are also taking the ground strongly. Now non-fiction writings are being analyzed, elucidated, and explored based on various theoretical principles of literary criticism. V. S. Naipaul carried the new genre to new heights and achievements. He is of Indian descent and known for his pessimistic works set in developing countries. He visited India several times, like Pearl S. Buck and E. M. Forster. So, his presentation of Indian religion, society, culture, and politics are very realistic. His vision and ideas are very close to the modern thoughts and visions of both the east and the west.

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Nandi, Shibasambhu. "Science Fiction and Film: An Analytical Study of Two Select Indian Movies." International Journal of English Learning & Teaching Skills 5, no. 4 (July 3, 2023): 3438–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.15864/ijelts.5407.

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Science fiction is a genre of art that caters to the popular taste of the people. It presents a world mixed with science and fictional elements. It can be taken as a microcosm of fictional literature. It uses to present unfamiliar and unknown things in a familiar and known way. It provides its diverse themes and issues not only in texts but also in films. When science fiction is adapted into movies, it is able to attract a large number of audiences specially the young generation of writers. Science fictional films cover the issues like future society, challenges created by scientific developments, human enhancement through science and technology, human-machine clash, hybrid identity, world of aliens, and Artificial Intelligences. There are many films in western countries covering the issue of science fiction. Production houses designed the films in such a way that it can make an appeal to the audience. Even in India, there are several science fiction films. From 1952 to the present, Indian cinema contributes a lot by producing one after another attracting films on the theme of science fiction. The present paper is going to analyze two films Koi...Mill Gaya and its sequel Krish 3 from the perspectives of science fiction. The paper will also try to present the history of science fiction films in India and in the West. It attempts to depict the science fictional elements and new techniques shown in the films. These films are the representations of future society which accepts the inhabitation of different beings like modified human, superhuman and aliens.

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Quraishi, Jawed Husain, and Dr Anshu Raj Purohit. "Indian Youth; Reflection in Chetan Bhagat’s Novels." International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research Configuration 2, no. 1 (January 28, 2022): 81–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.52984/ijomrc2108.

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It seems significant to note that Chetan Bhagat is an imperishable name in the arena of postmodern fiction along with that a symbol of new India. He has captured his deep concern about the youth today i.e. the problems and despairs, hopes and aspirations of the youth in all his works, he has written six fictions and two nonfictions. He specifically deals with the harsh realities of life and also manages to retain the sense of pure humour in his works. His works have striking similarities with parables in offering moral messages, spiritual guidance and technical suggestions; his works can better be defined as postmodern projection of parables. The present paper is based on those issues that deals with the victories and defeats of the youth, finely observed in Chetan’s stories. Keywords: Chetan Bhagat, Fiction, Non Fiction, Postmodern, Parable, Message.

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Jeeva C and Velumani P. "Portrayal of Traditional Indian Womanhood in R.K. Narayan’s The Dark Room." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND HUMANITIES 2, no. 2 (October 30, 2015): 32–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.26524/ijsth50.

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The Indo-Anglican literature is different from the Anglo-Indian literature. The former is the genre written and created by the Indians through the English language; the latter is written by the Englishmen on themes and subjects related to India. The Indo-Anglican fiction owes its origin to the translations of various fictional works from the Indian languages into English, notably from Bengali into English. The Indo-Anglican writers of fiction write with an eye and hope on the western readers. This influenced their choice of the subject matter. In Indo-Anglican novels there are Sadhus, Fakirs, Caves, Temples, Vedanta, Gandhi, Rajahs and Nawabs, etc. to are to show the interest of western audience. They represent essentially the western idea of India. But at the same time there are elements of Indianness, Nationalism and Patriotism, glorification of India’s past and sympathy for the teeming millions of the country.

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Joan Gordon. "Introduction: Indian Science Fiction." Science Fiction Studies 43, no. 3 (2016): 433. http://dx.doi.org/10.5621/sciefictstud.43.3.0433.

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Professor Quddoos Javed. "Dr. Riaz Tawhidi Kashmiri – A Representative Fiction Writer Of The Postmodern Era." Dareecha-e-Tahqeeq 1, no. 2 (March 21, 2022): 11–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.58760/dareechaetahqeeq.v1i2.9.

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Dr. Riaz Tawhidi Kashmiri is a renowned fiction writer of Indian Occupied Kashmir. Not only are the stories of local themes found in his fictions but the canvas of most of his stories is so wide that world-class themes and issues have been molded into the framework of fiction with great artistic and intellectual style. Thus most of his short stories beautifully reflect postmodern themes and on a literary level Riaz Tawhidi seems to have succeeded in establishing his position as a representative fiction writer of the postmodern era. In this article we will critically study the themes of Dr Riaz Tahwhidi’s fiction writing.

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Gupta, R. K. "Trends in Modern Indian Fiction." World Literature Today 68, no. 2 (1994): 299. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40150154.

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Browne, Ray B. "Jake Page's Indian Crime Fiction." Journal of American Culture 26, no. 3 (September 2003): 291–312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1542-734x.00093.

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Shah, Pratima. "Jhumpa Lahiri’s World of Fiction." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 2 (February 28, 2020): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i2.10418.

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Jhumpa Lahiri is one of the most dynamic and enthusiastic writers among her contemporaries, She is definitely blessed with rare kind of art which she has achieved by virtue of her incessant labour and courage. Although she was born and brought up in the foreign countries, her attachment with India and the Indians became indispensable, which can easily be noticed all through her work. Lahiri subsequently developed her own technicalities, which she deployed in her fictional works. She is heartily associated with Indian culture and traditions, and this is the real cause for her huge popularity and fame.

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Dr. Vishnu Kumar. "Social Resistance in Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable." Creative Launcher 7, no. 4 (August 30, 2022): 96–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2022.7.4.13.

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Mulk Raj Anand was a revolutionary writer of the twentieth century India who changed the mode of writing and thinking in the field of Indian fiction writing. The novelists before him, who had written fiction, wrote the fictional side of life which were ideal and romantic in nature. There were a smaller number of issues of the society. Mulk Raj Anand’s writing brought revolutionary change in the field of fiction writing. He wrote the novels for the sake of untouchables and the poor. He raised the issues of casteism, capitalism, feudalism, colonialism and imperialism through his novels. In Untouchable, he has attacked one of the worst social evils of the Indian society which was ignored by the previous writers and that is blot on Indian society, culture and tradition that has colonized eighty five percent people of Indian society. This sensibility has ruined creativity of Indian people. Casteism and untouchability are the blots on the face of humanity. Anand seems fighting for the liberty, equality and justice of the untouchables and the poor. He appealed for the basic human rights and needs in the newly emerging civil structure of colonial and post-independence India. He had the opinion among all the fundamental rights that human dignity is the highest. Bakha, the leading character, had the resistance in the mind but he could not express it due to the fear of his caste. Bakha is a metaphor for all the untouchables of India.

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Pandit, Dr Kamble Sanjay. "Chetan Bhagat's One Indian Girl: A Depiction Of Careerist Woman." Journal of Language and Linguistics in Society, no. 12 (November 19, 2021): 12–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.55529/jlls.12.12.16.

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Chetan Bhagat a very popular name among the modern age and new generation because of different style and subjects. Being well qualified man from IIT and IIM he could get the best job in corporate sector specially known as IT industry. In spite of his good educational background he chooses creative writing as his career and passion. He gave new dimension to Indian Writing in English because of his innovative themes and subjects handled in his creative fiction. His fictions have been transformed into movies. He explores cross cultural issues of marriage and career. He earned name and fame in very short period of time and that is the secret of his writing. He discusses the crucial issues of the present world. Almost all his novels are based on IT sector and that are labeled as Campus novels. LPG has brought many changes in the life of thousands of Indian. Chetan Bhagat is and intellectual magician of creative writing. Who has given new dimension to Indian Writing in English? He one of the popular and new generation fiction writers of IT sector. He is known for his different style, themes and ideas. But he is famous for career and feminism. When the world was in modern age, India was in medieval. For Indians modernism mean to adopt new way of life and that is fashion. He is well qualified man from IT sector but he chooses to be creative writer. The present paper is an honest attempt to bring into notice of researcher and readers that Chetan Bhagat's One Indian Girl is skillful depiction of Careerist woman of present age.

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Mahabel, Ashish. "Mythology, Cosmogonies, and Indian Science Fiction." Culture and Cosmos 27, no. 0102 (October 2023): 287–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.46472/cc.01227.0235.

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This paper examines the cultural significance of the intersection between Indian mythology, cosmogonies, and science fiction. India has a rich history of diverse religious traditions and corresponding world views, many of which have influenced each other. The Hindu pantheon has included the Sun from early times. With the planets also gaining in importance after the rise of astrology, the need to predict their paths saw the development of astronomical observations and spherical trigonometry. These serve as examples of how scientific and religious ideas have interacted throughout Indian history. Despite a strong tradition of fiction in India, there is a lack of science fiction that combines elements of mythology and astronomy except in superficial ways. This paper explores the potential reasons for this gap and argues that an examination of this genre can offer insight into the ways in which science and religion are perceived and valued in contemporary Indian society. The paper also offers a commentary on the current state of Indian science fiction that blends mythology and astronomy

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Dr Jyoti Patil. "Emergence of New Novel and Contribution of Salman Rushdie to Indian English Fiction." Creative Launcher 4, no. 2 (June 30, 2019): 10–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2019.4.2.02.

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After the publication of Salman Rushdie’s second novel Midnight’s Children (1980), there is an emergence of New Fiction marking the beginning of New Era in the history of Indian Writing in English. A large number of novelists living in India and abroad write fiction in great number and thereby breaking the stigma of the marginalization of Indian English Fiction. They introduce various components of modern theories regarding the composition of the fiction. They also prove their superiority over their western counterparts by achieving remarkable recognition on international platforms and by winning various coveted awards like Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prize and even Nobel Prize by V S Naipaul. These Indian English writers include Amitav Ghosh, Vikram Seth, Arundhati Roy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Anita Desai, Kiran Desai, Pankaj Mishra, Chetan Bhagat, Rohintan Mistry, Arvind Adiga, Shashi Tharoor and many more. The New novelists of the 21st century handle the themes of globalization, Political reality and cross-culturalism more effectively and brilliantly. In the present paper the focus will be on the assessment of emergence of New Fiction with its various traitsand contribution of Salman Rushdie in Indian English Fiction in the development of New Novel.

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Miller, Carol. "Telling the Indian Urban: Representations in American Indian Fiction." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 22, no. 4 (January 1, 1998): 43–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.17953/aicr.22.4.77pwx5456285t2h5.

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King, Bruce, and G. S. Balarama Gupta. "Studies in Indian Fiction in English." World Literature Today 62, no. 3 (1988): 514. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40144489.

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Frenkel. "Reconsidering South African Indian Fiction Postapartheid." Research in African Literatures 42, no. 3 (2011): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.42.3.1.

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Model, Suzanne. "West Indian Prosperity: Fact or Fiction?" Social Problems 42, no. 4 (November 1995): 535–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/sp.1995.42.4.03x0131a.

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Narayan, Shyamala A. "Recent Trends in Indian English Fiction." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 31, no. 2 (April 1, 2009): 5–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/ces.8792.

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D'SOUZA, JEAN. "Speech acts in Indian English fiction." World Englishes 10, no. 3 (November 1991): 307–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-971x.1991.tb00165.x.

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Ramchand, Kenneth. "Indian‐African relations in Caribbean fiction." Wasafiri 1, no. 2 (March 1985): 18–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02690058508574082.

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Model, Suzanne. "West Indian Prosperity: Fact or Fiction?" Social Problems 42, no. 4 (November 1995): 535–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3097045.

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Jain, Ravindra K. "Fiction and an Indian Polyglot Anthropology." Anthropological Quarterly 88, no. 4 (2015): 1085–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/anq.2015.0052.

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Madavi, Dr Manoj Shankarrao. "Exploring the Unexplored- Postcolonial Issues in the novels of Upmanyu Chatterjee and Arvind Adiga." International Journal of Teaching, Learning and Education 2, no. 4 (2023): 28–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijtle.2.4.5.

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Indian English fiction writings have flourished after the post-independence period. Most of the Indian English novels were dealing with post-partition, changing social-political values and impact of colonial rule on Indian Psyche. Upmanyu Chatterjee wrote some of the prominent novels focusing on changing values of Indian society in postcolonial India were having high education and all comforts of life, characters in novels finds themselves in a cultural dilemma. Postcolonial literature of India which deals with the decolonization of the minds of colonized communities. Important issues like socio-economic disparities, cultural domination, ethical subjugation, identical marginalization, political nepotism, and corrupt bureaucracy have been brought to the forefront by Arvind Adiga in postcolonial Indian English fictions. This research article examines the different aspect of postcoloniality as reflected in the selective novel writing of Upmanyu Chatterjee and Arvind Adiga.

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Verma, Shekar. "Depiction of Women and their condition in Amulya Malladi’s Novels." Revista Review Index Journal of Multidisciplinary 2, no. 4 (December 31, 2022): 22–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.31305/rrijm2022.v02.n04.005.

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Today, Indian English Fiction is a significant part of the global literary canon, and female Indian novelists have earned international recognition on par with their male contemporaries. They added a fresh perspective to Indian writing. Ruth Prawar Jhabwala, Kamala Markandaya, Santa Rama Rau, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Shobha De, Bharati Mukherjee, Arundhati Roy, Gita Hariharan, Namita Gokhale, Anita Nair, Manju Kapoor, and many more are only few of the prominent Indian women authors. The items in this list are not all there are. Amulya Malladi is a brand-new, formidable figure in modern Indian English fiction. Borders, migration, 'illegal' immigration, repatriation, exile, refugees, assimilation, multiculturalism, and hybridity are only some of the topics and discourses that her works explore.

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Raja, Ira. "Embodied History: Intergenerational Conflict in Indian Fiction." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 27, no. 2 (2005): 9–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/120tr.

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This article builds on the existing critique of the modernization paradigm, and its particularly Indian manifestations, to propose that the relationship between disadvantages in later life and modernization be situated within the context of class-based imbalances of access and exclusion at the intra-familial, intergenerational level. Following Pierre Bourdieu, I adopt a model of class which is based on ‘capital’ movements through social space. Capital here functions as an economistic metaphor referring to the resources distributed throughout the social body. The value of Bourdieu’s ideas is reflected in two Indian short stories I will examine (one each from Hindi and Bengali), here chosen as representative instances of a widespread preoccupation of contemporary Indian fiction.

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Shumaila Fatma. "Treatment of History in Select Contemporary Indian English Novels." Creative Launcher 5, no. 4 (October 30, 2020): 60–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2020.5.4.11.

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History and fiction share one trait in common and that is recording of events past, incidence, personalities, movements, etc. the difference between history and fiction is that history takes an objective view of the events whereas fiction takes a creative sweep. Both chronicle formation, development and evolution of nations in their own way. History fiction interface therefore becomes a virgin track to till for the Indian English novelist. Shashi Tharoor in The Great Indian Novel (1989), Geeta Mahta in Raj (1988) and Kiran Nagarkar in Cuckold (1997) explore this interface in their unique ways. Tharoor tries to atone himself with his present retrospectively with the help of history. Geeta Mehta tries to coalate east –west encounter along with cultural issues, historical facts and fantasy, realism and socio-political features at the time of independence. Kiran Nagarkar tries to achieve a transformation in the history or the lack of it.

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M, Athira. "Torn between Cultures: Reading Shashi Tharoor’s Riot." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 9, no. 1 (January 29, 2021): 60–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v9i1.10878.

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Shashi Tharoor is a distinctivevoice in the Postcolonial Indian literature in English with his remarkable contribution of more than 16 works of fiction and non-fiction. Postcolonialism refers to a set of theoretical concepts, approaches and interventions which deals with the diverse effects of the interaction between the colonizer and the colonized. History, politics and culture have always been a dominant preoccupation of the Indian English novelists. The compulsive obsession was perhaps inevitable since the genre originated and developed concurrently with the climatic phase of colonial rule. As a diplomat and writer, Shashi Tharoor has explored the diversity of culture in his native country. He has made his point in many of his interviews that the novel is full of collisions of various sorts- personal, political, cultural, emotional and violent. Riot is a novel about the ownership of history, about love, hate, cultural collision, religious fanaticism and the impossibility of knowing the truth. The novel chronicles the mystery of an American 24-year old lady, Priscilla Hart. The intention of this paper is to explore the cultural conflict between the East and the West and an attempt is made to examine Shashi Tharoor’s Riot as a conveyor of the various distinguishable features to the divergent cultures. The characters of Riot are facing problems and striving to achieve their identities as Indians and as individuals in Indian society. Lakshman, though an educated Indian, cannot share his intellectual ideas with any fellow Indians, but feels quite comfortable with Priscilla, an American lady. Yet, he cannot completely forego his Indian identity and is aware of their irreconcilable gap between their culture, values and outlook towards life.

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Tyler, Varro E. "NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN DRUGS - FACT AND FICTION." Acta Horticulturae, no. 426 (August 1996): 139–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.17660/actahortic.1996.426.15.

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Amanuddin, Syed, and A. N. Dwivedi. "Studies in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English." World Literature Today 62, no. 4 (1988): 728. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40144778.

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Banerjee, Suparno. "A Pioneering Study of Indian Science Fiction." Science Fiction Studies 48, no. 1 (2021): 163–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sfs.2021.0025.

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Almond, Ian. "Dissolving 'Indianness': How Europeans Read Indian Fiction." Orbis Litterarum 60, no. 2 (April 2005): 145–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0105-7510.2005.00831.x.

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Das, Hari, and Mallika Das. "Gender Stereotyping in Contemporary Indian Magazine Fiction." Asian Studies Review 33, no. 1 (March 2009): 63–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357820802713593.

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Keown, Michelle. "Postcolonial literary history and Indian English fiction." Journal of Postcolonial Writing 47, no. 5 (December 2011): 573–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2011.616373.

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Espinet, Ramabai. "The invisible Woman in West Indian fiction." World Literature Written in English 29, no. 2 (September 1989): 116–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449858908589105.

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Lindqvist, Ursula. "West Indian women in Danish popular fiction." African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal 7, no. 1 (December 7, 2013): 52–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17528631.2013.858919.

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VALENTINE, TAMARA M. "Cross-sex conversation in Indian English fiction." World Englishes 4, no. 3 (November 1985): 319–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-971x.1985.tb00422.x.

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Mongia, Padmini. "Speaking American: Popular Indian Fiction in English." Comparative American Studies An International Journal 12, no. 1-2 (June 2014): 140–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/1477570014z.00000000077.

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Tembhurne, Mr Punyashil S. "Indian Fiction in English and Human Rights." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 11, no. 7 (July 31, 2023): 436–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2023.54639.

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Abstract: Human rights are one of the factors that ensure the hopes of the common man. Sadly, however, it is not uncommon to see these rights violated by dictatorial regimes. When this happens, literature must take the initiative to bring light to such violations and help people sympathize with those whose rights are abused. This article explores the relationship between literature and human rights. It argues that literature can play a paramount role in promoting human rights in two ways. First, literature, being a reflection of reality, can expose the various human rights violations and abuses happening across the world and this will help people to be more aware of these violations. Secondly, using its unique power to touch the hearts and minds of people, literature can make people more sympathetic towards those who suffer and live in pain as a result of violations of their human rights. Mulk Raj Anand is a great humanist and his prime concern is human predicament.Anita Desai shows the denial of social justice to women. Khuswant Singh and Salman Rushdie draw attention towards sexual abuse of children.

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Bagchi, Barnita. "Indian Science Fiction: Patterns, History and Hybridity." Utopian Studies 34, no. 3 (November 2023): 586–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.34.3.0586.

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Bakshi, Raj N. "Indian English." English Today 7, no. 3 (July 1991): 43–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078400005757.

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Kachru (1965, 1966) has presented a detailed analysis of the idiosyncratic vocabulary items of Indian English (hereafter IE). He observes that “in India an idiom of English has developed which is Indian in the sense that there are formal and contextual exponents of Indianness in such writing, and the defining-context of such idiom is Indian setting” (1965:396). To illustrate how IE has become culture bound in India, he mentions many formations, such as confusion of caste, dung wash, saltgiver, rape-sister, etc., drawn from IE fiction, and calls them Indianisms.

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Beniwal, Kuntal. "Indian Society, Infertility, and Infidelity in Manju Kapur’s Fiction Custody." Revista Gestão Inovação e Tecnologias 11, no. 4 (July 10, 2021): 1751–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.47059/revistageintec.v11i4.2233.

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Singh, HP. "EXISTENTIALISM IN INDIAN ENGLISH NOVEL." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 3, no. 7 (July 31, 2015): 40–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v3.i7.2015.2984.

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Existentialism in Indian English Novel has its roots in western philosophy. Since our civilization has been heading towards westernization, and the life of man has been tending towards modernization. It has become inevitable for man to ask himself who he is and what his relation is to the physical and social world. The modern Indian is surrounded by the forces which are commanded and controlled by existentialist dilemmas. Modern fictional hero is a split-personality or a tortured individual through whose mind the novelist points out the social or national or human conditions. Modern heroes are not only emotionally wronged but also shaken at the existential level. The problems of existence are too wide to be managed by the modern man. The modern novel portrays outsiders, foreigners, who are empty in feelings, or incapable of communication, or unable to relate themselves meaningfully to the surroundings. Thus modern’s fiction in English reflects modern human predicament; life surrounded by forces of anxiety.

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Varughese, E. Dawson. "Post-millennial “Indian Fantasy” fiction in English and the question of mythology: Writing beyond the “usual suspects”." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 54, no. 3 (December 7, 2017): 460–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989417738282.

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Focusing on two novels published in 2016, one by HarperCollins India and the other by Hachette India, this paper argues that Savage Blue by Balagopal and Dark Things by Venkatraghavan carve out a new space in post-millennial Indian speculative fiction in English, namely one that does not privilege ‘Hindu Indian mythology’ tropes. Such tropes have been espoused by a growing number of authors whose novels are anchored in Hindu Indian mythology and narratives of itihasa since the early 2000s. Banker, Tripathi, and Sanghi are generally recognized as the authors who first published in this post-millennial genre of Indian fiction in English. This discussion of the novels by Balagopal and Venkatraghavan, alongside ideas of how ‘fantasy’ as a genre has been, and continues to be defined, raises questions about how we might think about ‘Indian fantasy’ as a genre term within the domestic Indian book market and how it intersects with post-millennial Indian living, Indianness, and the popular imaginary.

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GODEANU-KENWORTHY, OANA. "Fictions of Race: American Indian Policies in Nineteenth-Century British North American Fiction." Journal of American Studies 52, no. 1 (December 27, 2016): 91–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875816001948.

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This article explores the hemispheric and transatlantic uses of race and empire as tropes of settler-colonial otherness in the novelThe Canadian Brothers(1840) by Canadian author John Richardson. In this pre-Confederation historical novel, Richardson contrasts the imperial British discourse of racial tolerance, and the British military alliances with the Natives in the War of 1812, with the brutality of American Indian policies south of the border, in an effort to craft a narrative of Canadian difference from, and incompatibility with, American culture. At the same time, the author's critical attitude towards all European military and commercial interventions in the New World illuminates the rootedness of both American and Canadian settler colonialisms in British imperialism, and exposes the arbitrariness and constructedness of the political boundaries dividing the continent.

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Simpson, Hyacinth M. "“Is all o’ we one?”: Creolization and ethnic identification in Samuel Selvon’s “Turning Christian”." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 53, no. 1 (April 22, 2016): 169–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989416635224.

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Samuel Selvon’s fiction reveals the author’s abiding concern with questions of identity and community and his investment in reconciling the seemingly conflicting subjects of creolization and ethnic identification in Caribbean societies, particularly in his native Trinidad. The pervasive and often violent ethnic conflict between Trinidadians of Indian and African heritage is linked to constructions of the nation in which claims to, as well as exclusion from, Creole identities play an important role. In response, Selvon’s fictional interventions position Indian communities (whether peasant, working- or middle-class) in relation to other ethno-racial groups in ways that construct Trinidadian-ness as an inclusive and dynamic negotiation of self and culture across the various communities represented in the nation. Drawing on Kamau Brathwaite’s seminal concept of creolization as well as the work of other theorists (including Mintz, Bolland, and Munasinghe) of Creole identities and the creolization process, the analysis of “Turning Christian” — a short story excerpted from Selvon’s unfinished novel — provides an account of Selvon’s identity politics in this and his other works of fiction.

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Forter, Greg. "Atlantic and Other Worlds: Critique and Utopia in Postcolonial Historical Fiction." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 131, no. 5 (October 2016): 1328–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2016.131.5.1328.

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This essay traces the meanings and effects of postcolonial authors' recent refashioning of classical historical fiction. That refashioning has two aims: a materialist cartography that counters the nationalist vocation of classical historical fiction by revealing the supranational, global aspirations of colonial capitalism as a system; and an effort to retrieve from colonial modernity the residues of premodern, often presecular modes of solidarity that persist in yet lie athwart the colonial-modern. The analysis focuses on two novels: Barry Unsworth's Sacred Hunger (1992) and Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies (2006). It engages with work on the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds, with theoretical critiques of utopia, and with the Lukácsian concept of typification (and Ian Baucom's criticism of it). The essay concludes by linking the birth of postcolonial historical fiction to the form of finance capital undergirding our contemporary moment—a form of capital that reprises while intensifying that which held sway at the moment of historical fiction's first emergence.

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Singh, Dr Jyoti. "Gender bias: A study of the girl child in Indian fiction." Global Journal For Research Analysis 3, no. 7 (June 15, 2012): 118–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.15373/22778160/july2014/39.

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Rahman, Suzan Raheem, Lamiaa Ahmed Rasheed, and Lujain Ismael Mustafa. "The Adaption of Self-Reflexivity and Metafiction Approach to Myth and History in Shashi Tharoor's the Great Indian Novel: A Post-Modernist Study." International Journal of Early Childhood Special Education 12, no. 2 (December 31, 2020): 88–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.9756/int-jecse/v12i2.201059.

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Shashi Tharoor's The Great Indian Novel is an example of a post-modern historiographic metafiction that takes the relationship between reality and fiction into consideration. This novel also depicts the 20th century political past by reviving events, incidents and characters of the myth of Mahabharata. The current paper aims to explain how Tharoor rebuilds the twentieth-century past by drawing on the great Mahabharata classical epic. Additionally, it examines the common relationship between fiction and history as it progressed along and continuous processes through the use of self-reflexivity and metafiction approach. In The Great Indian Novel, Tharoor adapts a metafiction tool which is the most fitting way to tackle this novel as a postmodernist study. Tharoor blends fiction and fact through a self-reflective narrative and the use of several metafiction devices by adapting the myth of Mahabharata to construct the distance between the past and the present. Tharoor takes the ancient myth as the basic structure with contemporary group of political characters for a real and ironic review of recent Indian history and representation.

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