NEW INDIAN ENGLISH FICTION

The demise of Mulk Raj Anand is the end of Socio-Literary consciousness in Indian Literature in English. The Omnibus of Mulk Raj Anand provides us the unexplored shades in the personality of Mulk Raj Anand. Though hailed as the promulgator of initiating and consolidating the social consciousness as the apt subject for Literature in Indian literature in English, Anand is subjected to critical and analytical observation. It is from this, the radical revisionof pre independent Indian literature is viewed on the lines of epistemology & existentialism. In the times of rational and robust Dalit literary eruptions, Anand’s out and out saga of social renderings have gained significance. Apart from his distinctive personality as a social writer who dismantled the conventional heights of realism, Anand’s personal courage has become the thing for appreciation. The pre independent underlined loyalty for Gandhism is exploded with the contemporary critical insights. Out and out Dalit literary explosions like Narendra Jhadav’s Outcaste, Sharan Kumar Limbale’s Out Caste, Joseph Mcwan’s The Step Child etc., have questioned the textual politics of Anand’s novels. Among all the words that Anand has written Untouchable & Coolie stand apart and Anand’s significance entirely rests on these two novels. It is from this perspective, a rereading of these two novels is conducted in this study.