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From: Journal of Narrative Theory[(essay date summer 2001) In the following essay, Schneller considers two novels--Gita Mehta's Raj and Mistry's A Fine Balance--and their authors' respective shaping of historical fact for their narratives.] The title...
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From: Alternative Indias: Writing, Nation and Communalism[(essay date February 2002) In this essay, first presented as a paper in February 2002, Yaqin provides a history of Urdu in India, questioning the validity of Desai's nostalgic outlook on the language in her novel In...
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From: Postcolonial Text[(essay date 2006) In the following essay, Maharaj contests Ghosh's assertion in The Glass Palace and the 1997 essay "India's Untold War of Independence" that the Indian National Army (INA) was responsible for gaining...
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From: Nirad C. Chaudhuri: The Scholar Extraordinary[(essay date 2000) In the following essay, Naikar critiques Thy Hand, Great Anarch!, noting its mixture of memoir and autobiography and analyzing Chaudhuri's novelistic treatment of events in his life in the book.]...
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From: The Middle East Journal[(essay date 1954) In the following review, McKenna discusses both the political nature of Prison and Chocolate Cake and its domestic vision of Indian home life.] Nayantara Sahgal’s book gives one an intimate picture...