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Abstract: The paper tries to explore the satirical mechanism used by Shrilal Shukla to expose post-Independence India. The focus is on how the writer harnesses the situations to depict the real realm of villages in India. Raag Darbari is holding a significant place in the genre of satire where Shrilal Shukla aims at the presentation of corruption spread in every layer of the domain he penetrated in. Provincial sketches in the novel depict the whole regional bureaucracy, from petty clerk to the Pradhan. Enticement, larceny of state funds, bullying, idleness, defamation, and moral degradation are a consistent aspect of the village. The PPP- Public, Police Partnership is obvious in the thematic fabric which gradually reveals: The corruption in betrayal of emergence of new ideologies and policies, the centralization of power, the failure of a self-reliance, and the pressure of survival in oppressed atmosphere, where no one wants to be the herald of a change as everyone travels in a bandwagon.

Post- Independence India, Satire, Cooperatives, Police, Court, Power, Education, Villages, Corruption, Despotism, Politics, Nepotism, New ideologies

"Raag Darbari: A Satire on Government Mechanism in Post- Independence India", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.497-503, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905K65.pdf

"Raag Darbari: A Satire on Government Mechanism in Post- Independence India", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp497-503, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905K65.pdf