Realism and Reality
Mukherjee, Meenakshi (Professor of English, School of Languages, Centre for the Study of English and Linguistics, Professor of English, School of Languages, Centre for the Study of English and Linguistics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
This is a study of the emergence and growth of the novel in India during the mid-nineteenth and early-twentieth century. Apart from a large number of minor writers of prose fiction, every major novelist - including Bankimchandra Chatterji, Saratchandra Chatterjee, Rabindranath Tagore, Premchand and Anantha Murthy - falls within the ambit of this socio-literary study.