LIBERATION MOTIF IN SELECT NOVELS OF MULK RAJ ANAND ...

Achebe resembles Anand in some of his characteristics as awriter. He too is a committed artist with a missionary zeal forthe restoration of dignity to his people. Achebe is a consummateartist. His craftsmanship is nowhere in jeopardy. Withoutsacrificing his overall aim of evoking the splendid past and theharmonious but simple life-style of his ancestors, he hassucceeded in creating credible characters, substantive storiesand enthralling and absorbing plots.While Anand doesn't conceal his sensibilities and politicalposturing on occasions, Achebe merely shows up thecontradiction and chaos thrown up by the colonial regime andleaves it to the reader to make his own judgement or inference.Where Achebe wants to indict the arrogance and imperialism of theBritish, he takes recourse to the ironic or satiric mode,Thus we notice that there are similarities and variancesbetween Anand and Achebe as writers and artists. Neverthelesswhat interests one here is the possibility of an in-depth analysisof the novels of Anand and Achebe with a view of establishingtheir liberationist angle and scope for libterationistinterpretation and illustration.A host of critics and scholars both Indian and foreign havestudied the works of Anand and written elaborate criticalcommentaries on individual novels and on Anandfs merits as anovelist, Similarly Achebe has attracted a number of African and