POST-INDEPENDENCE INDIAN ENGLISH FICTION Edited by RAJESHWAR MITTAPALLI ALESSANDRO MONTI O ATLANTIC ATLANTIC PUBLISHERS AND DISTRIBUTORS CONTENTS Preface v 1. Caste Identities in Raja Rao's The Cat and 1 Shakespeare —Ragini Ramachandra 2. R.K. Narayan's The Man-eater ofMatgudi: 12 Problematising the Nation —Syed Mujeebuddin 3. Decolonizing History: A Postcolonial Reading 27 of Malgonkar's The Devil's Wind -•—D. Maya 4. Postcolonial Re-presentations in Anita Desai's 34 Fire on the Mountain —Antony Johae 5. 'Journey to the East' Once Again: Anita 44 Desai's Journey to Ithaca —Rama Kundu 6. Failed Householders: Renouncement and Distributive 55 Strategies in Fasting, Feasting —Alessandro Monti 7. Idealism and Affliction: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's 69 Get Ready for Battle —Rajeshwar Mittapalli 8. The Day in Shadow. A Study in Inertia and 77 Submission —Asha Choubey 9. Indian Ethos in Arun Joshi's The Last Labyrinth 88 —M. Mani Meitei 10. Victims and Survivors: Kamala Markandaya's Indian 103 Women Protagonists —Asha Susan Jacob 11. The Discourse of Resistance: A Reading of 117 Kamala Markandaya's Pleasure City —D. Maya 12. A Voice After the Long Silence: Shashi Despande's 124 Roots and Shadows and That Long Silence —Anita Singh 13. Inscription of the Repressed: Khushwant Singh's 129 Delhi —Anita Singh 14. Disorienting Orient: The East-West Encounter in 136 Gita Mehta's Karma Cola —Corrado Micheli 15. Entwining Narratives: Intertextuality in Vikram 150 Chandra's Red Earth and Pouring Rain —Christopher Rollason 16. History, Narrative and Partition: A Reading of 164 Mukul Kesavan's Looking Through Glass —Anita Singh 17. Redefining the Margin: Arundhati Roy 171 —Rama Kundu 18. Githa Hariharan: Intertext, Metafiction and 179 'Her Story' —Rama Kundu 19. The Silent Women in The Thief of 190 Nagarahalli and Other Stories —Aroonima Sinha Contributors 198.