Literature Of The Shadow Lines By Amitav Ghose

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K.R.S. Iyengar rightly remarks: Besides, whatever the language medium chosen, the stress has been more on simplicity and clarity and immediate effectiveness than on ornateness or profundity or laborious artistry, and this has been marked in English writing as in writing in the regional languages. As regards the choice of themes and the portrayal all character, the Gandhian influence has been no less marked there has been a more or less conscious shift of emphasis from the village or there is implied a contrast between the two-urban luxury and sophistication on the one hand and rural nodes and manners on the other. (6) The Indo Anglian writers were much influenced by Ghandhiji and his national movements. Literature of …show more content…

Swadeshi movement, communal riots, partition were the main themes of this novel. Novels in English or in native languages were written in the spirit of partition and its results on nation, it became the main theme of those days. The agony of the communal riots and the anguish of the refuges were seen in the works during this time. The urdu short story Lajavnti by Rajinder Singh Bedi presented a story of a woman’s Predicament during partition. Khushwant singh’s English novel Train to Pakistan (1956), K. A. Abbas’s Inquallab(1955), Sadat Hasan Manto’s Toba Tek Singh (1955) and Bhisham Sahni’s Hindi novel Tamas (1974), Yash pal’s hindi novel Jutha Sach Such famous and noted works of these kind portraying displacement, dark sides of humanity, disasters, hollowness, mourning, violence and many elements of partition. Those works are appreciated till today …show more content…

Jhabvala, Arundhati Desai etc touched the different facets of India through their works. Sudhin Ghose’s The Flame of the forest (1955), R.K. Narayan’s The Guide (1958), Anita Desai’s Cry the Peocock (1963), Raja Rao’s The cat and Shakespeare (1965), The vendor of Sweets (1967) by Narayan, present Indian social, religious, economical and cultural status. On the other hand Anglo Indian novelists like Philip Meadows, Rudyard Kipling, John Masters and E. M. Forster stood for their far front realistic works. However Anglo Indian literature ended during independence. But John Masters and Philip Mason were still writing after independence. In the works of Anglo Indians India is seen as a darken country full of superstitions, Sadhus, thugs, slums, disease, poverty, illiteracy, disloyalty, chaos etc. A passage to India (1924) by Forster is the output of the journey in India by a writer himself before independence. The confessions of a Thug (1839) by Meadows and Bhowani Junction (1954) by John Masters are the works by Anglo Indian writers before and after Independent

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