Elements of Indianness in the R.K. Narayan’s the Bachelor of Arts

Author(s)	Soubhik Karmakar
Country	India
Abstract	The article discusses how different elements of Indian life and culture have repleted R.K Narayan’s The Bachelor of Arts (1937). By the employment of realistic mode of narration, Narayan in the fictional town of Malgudi creates a small world of Indian life and culture. The life and the world in this work does not only exhibit the Indian landscape and atmosphere, terrains and flora and fauna, side by side it also exhibits the everyday quotidian life lived by common man of the country, and each of the aspect has been brilliantly captured in a foreign language, English, and thereby giving the language a naturalized identity of being considered as Indian English.
Keywords	Narration, Indian English, Realism, Society, Westernization, Indianization
Field	Arts
Published In	Volume 2, Issue 2, March-April 2020
Published On	2020-04-30
Cite This	Elements of Indianness in the R.K. Narayan’s the Bachelor of Arts - Soubhik Karmakar - IJFMR Volume 2, Issue 2, March-April 2020.

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