india author m 1- a-nan - University of Wollongong

the disintegrating feudalism of the Maharajas and the bourgeois interests of the Praja Mandal
(Congress Party in the Native States). 2) Concentrates on the theme of protest as unifying
element in Anand’s fictional treatment of political machinations in the rapidly changing India of
1947. 3) Ofers a Marxist approach centred on continuing class struggle as Anand’s message
conveyed through his fiction. 4) Marxist critique in 1988 seems hardly new in historical
development of Indian English criticism.
SINGH, SATYANARAIN ed. Kakatiya Journal of English Studies special issue 11.1
(1977)
see KAKATIYA
SINGH, SUNAINA. "Protest in the Novels of Mulk Raj Anand" Osmania Journal of English
Studies 17 (1981):123-33.
SINHA, K.N. Mulk Raj Anand New York: Twayne, 1973, 154 pp.
SIVADASAN, C.P. "Two Proletarian Novels: Similarities in Anand's Untouchable and
Thakazhi's Thottiyude makan" Indian Literature 30.3 (May-June 1987):119-24.
1) Both novels concerned with the issue of discrimination and its consequences on the
lower caste untouchables. 2) Articulates similarities in character, setting, narrative technique
and social commitment between Anand’s Untouchable (1935) and Thakazhi’s The
Scavenger’s Son (1947). 3) Comparative approach links fictions by similarity and difference.
4) NA.
SOOD. S.C. “The Return of the Prodigal: A Reading of Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable”
Commonwealth Quarterly 14.39 (1989):34-49.
Argument founded on Gandhian Hinduism and rejection of British influence as viable
way forward for Indian untouchables. Extensive character study of Bakha and his dilemma.
Sociological analysis of untouchability and its denial of humanity.
STEINVORTH, KLAUS. "Mulk Raj Anand's Private Life of an Indian Prince and Manohar
Malgonkar's The Princes" The Literary Half-Yearly 14.1 (1973):76-91.
Offers the suggestion that the maharajas aligned themselves with the British
establishment and thereby alienated themselves from the Indian nationalist and proindependence
forces. Analyses the role of the maharaja as a pivotal character in Western
conceptions of the Indian way of life. Sociological study of the relationship between the
maharajas and their subjects. Concludes with superficial psychological assessment of the
maharajas suffering from the Oedipal Complex.
STILZ, GERHARD. “Indian Autobiographies in English: Nehru and Anand, for Instance” in
MCDERMOTT, DOIREANN ed. Autobiographical and Biographical Writing in
Commonwealth Literature Barcelona: Sabadell, 1984:209-213.
Figures autobiography as an ellipse around locating the self and describing experience.
Self is what resists absorption into description of the world, the private “changeability behind
the continuity of imposed social roles”. Nehru’s Autobiography (1936) offers mostly external
reflections, fleeting introspective moments explained away as his “inclination to escape into
action”. Anand’s Apology for Heroism (1946) alludes to Gandhi but works with
Hegelian/Marxist ideas. His concept of evolving belief/spiritual development allows an openended
narration of self-correction.