Abstract
Whereas the Mutiny has been the subject of many novels by British authors, and of only one Indian novel, Independence has been treated by many Indian novelists, and noticeably fewer British writers.
I thought that the whole bloody affair of us in India had reached flash point. It was bound to because it was based on a violation.1
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Paul Scott, The Jewel in the Crown (1966; rpt, London: Granada, 1980), p. 427. All subsequent page references are to this edition and appear parenthetically in the text.
A.V. Krishna Rao, ‘Identity and Environment: Narayan’s The Guide and Naipaul’s A House for Mr Biswas’, in Iliventing Countries: Essays in Post-Colonial Literatures (Wollongong: SPACLALS, 1987), p. 168.
R.K. Narayan, Waiting for the Mahatma (Michigan State University Press, 1955), p. 52. All subsequent page references are to this edition and appear parenthetically in the text.
Jim Masselos, Indiall Nationalism: An History (New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1985), p. 207.
George Woodcock, ‘The Sometime Sahibs: Two Post-Independence British Novelists of India’, Queen’s Quarterly, 86 (1979–80), 49.
Paul Scott, The Towers of Silence (1971; rpt, London: Granada, 1979), p. 46. All subsequent page references are to this edition and appear parenthetically in the text.
Paul Scott, A Division of the Spoils (1975; rpt, London: Granada, 1979), p. 261. All subsequent page references are to this edition and appear parenthetically in the text.
Paul Scott, The Day of the Scorpion (1968; rpt, London: Granada, 1979), p. 32. All subsequent page references are to this edition and appear parenthetically in the text.
There is a relationship between illusion and truth in Hindu philosophy. Samkara explains that ‘a person may mistake a rope for a serpent. The serpent is not there, but it is not entirely an illusion, for there is the rope’. K.M. Sen, Hinduism (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981), p. 83. This relationship is also explored in Kim during Kim’s early training with Lurgan Sahib.
Allen Boyer, ‘Love, Sex and History in The Raj Quartet’, Modern Language Quarterly, 46, no. 1 (1985),68.
Kenneth Burke, ‘Social and Cosmic Mystery: A Passage to India’, in Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method (University of California Press, 1966), p. 226.
Patrick Swinden, Paul Scott: Images of India (London: Macmillan, 1980), p.89.
Max Beloff, ‘The End of the Raj: Paul Scott’s Novels as History’, Encounter, 36, no. 5 (1976), p. 67.
Paul Scott, ‘India: A Post-Forsterian View’, in Essays by Divers Hands, no. 36, ed. Mary Stocks (London: Oxford University Press, 1976) p. 115.
Allen J. Greenberger, The British Image of India (Oxford University Press, 1969) p. 185.
John Masters, Bhowani /Iinction (1954; rpt, London: Sphere, 1983), p. 9. All subsequent page references are to this edition and appear parenthetically in the text.
Geoffrey Moorehouse, India Britannica (1983; rpt, London: Paladin, 1986), p. 144.
Manohar Malgonkar, Tile Princes (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1963), p. 13. All subsequent page references are to this edition and appear parenthetically in the text.
Saros Cowasjee, introd. to Private Life of an Indian Prince, by Mulk Raj Anand (London: Bodley Head, 1953), p. 13.
James Y. Dayananda, ‘Manohar Malgonkar on His Novel The Princes: An Interview’, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 9, no. 3 (1975), 23.
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Crane, R.J. (1992). Swaraj. In: Inventing India. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230380080_5
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