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the writer’s ‘own terms’. 3) Comparative approach concerns issues of similarity and
difference between mythic basis and individual talent’s treatment of mythic structure on his
‘own terms’. 4) Nothing new here.
MATHUR, O. P. “Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchables [sic] and Richard Wright’s Bigger
Thomas: A comparative Study in Social Protest and Affirmation.” LHY 19.2 (1978). 115-28.
1) Identifies these fictions as examples of “revolutionary romanticism” motivated by
the “socialist” humanism of their authors. Reiteration of Anand’s socialist principles. 2)
Distinguishes some notable differences between the black American and the untouchable
Hindu, although both are marginalised by their societies as dispossed minorities. 3)
Investigation of religious credos based on Gandhian Hinduism and renewed Christianity found
to have similar solutions to societal problems. 4) Nothing new here.
MUKHERJEE, MEENAKSHI. "The Tractor and the Plough: The Contrasted Visions of
Sudhin Ghose and Mulk Raj Anand" in MUKHERJEE, MEENAKSHI. ed. Considerations:
Twelve Studies of Indo-Anglian Writing New Delhi: Allied, 1977: 111-21.
1) Analyses four contrasts in the writing of Sudhin Ghose and Mulk Raj Anand: I)
Realism and Myth ii) Reason and Faith iii) Attitude towards the Past iv) Concept of Art.
Claims progress to be Anand’s key belief in his fiction. Anand values dynamism and active
participation in changing social conditions. 2) Investigates technical aspects dealing with
resources used to generate material. 3) Contrasts formalism of Ghose with realism of Anand.
4) Critical mode to historical development: Nothing new here.
MURTI, K.V. SURYANARAYANA. The Sword and the Sickle: A Study of Mulk Raj
Anand's Novels Mysore: Geetha Book House, 1983, 162 pp.
NAIK, M.K. Mulk Raj Anand New Delhi: Arnold-Heinemann, 1973, 199pp.
Pursues the complex of issues arising from the clash between Indian tradition and
Western modernity as it applies to Anand's writing. Opposes the openly positive assessments
of the author by expressing agreement with highly critical comments by K. R. Srinivasa
Iyengar. Adopts a formalist/sociological approach to Anand's oeuvre locating his best efforts
as reliant upon traditional Hindu material enlightened by judicious use of Western modernist
concepts.
NAIK, M.K. “Introduction” Selected Short Stories of Mulk Raj Anand New Delhi: Arnold-
Heinemann. 1977: 9-31.
Cites Anand’s debt to Indian traditional tales and his mother’s storytelling, to Tolstoy,
Gorky, Turgenev and Powys. Notes his social satire, comic touches andpsychological
perception. Divides the stories into ‘lyric awareness’, animal fabels, the pathos of the
oppressed and overt satire. Stories cover a wide range of settings and characters, all with a
strong narrative drive, though occasionally with drawn-out beginnings and ‘poeticising’. They
have the ‘galloping tempo’ and ‘opulent’ idiom of Indian speech.
NAIK, M.K. "The Achievement of Mulk Raj Anand" Journal of Indian Writing in English 1.1
(1973):41-50.
Naik argues that Anand is a committed writer attached to conscious humanist
convictions and humanitarian compassion. A defence of formalist conventions as lacking in
Anand's work. Lack of formalist orthodoxy evidenced in three distinct ways: a) character