Indian Political and Historical Novels in English

Indian Political and Historical Novels in English

Indian English literature is emerging as New literature in English and as national literature in an acquired language. A novel is a major form attempted in three phases. Novels are classified into the following groups:

1) Traditional Novel of Social Realism before Independence.

2) The Modern Novel of Experimentation after Independence.

3) A New Contemporary Novel since 1981.

Novels written in the first phase from 1864 to 1930 are entitled as the novel of the nativity. The novels written in the second phase from 1931 to 1980 are called novels of conclusion and novels written in the third phase from 1981 are known as the novel of culmination. During the first phase, novelists concentrated on realistic and social realism, Indianness, Indian political movement, Indian Freedom Struggle, Indian History, and Gandhian philosophy.