• Dr. BALUMURI VENKATESWARLU

Shashi Tharoor’s award winning work The Great Indian Novel (1989) showcases an allegorical representation of recent history and politics modelled on the ancient epic The Mahabharata. He has taken the epic as a blueprint and filled it with a contemporary cast for his witty sent-up of pre and post-independence India. The history of India’s struggle against colonial rule and her postcolonial tryst with democracy is presented in an epic vein. Tharoor’s strategy, bases on both the modern problematization of history and politics; and Indian traditions is both culturally appropriate and subversive in terms of internal affairs as well as imperial history and its modern legacies.

Epic, Allegory, Historiography, Politics, Satire, Myth, Social Realism, Contemporary Society.

"EXPLORING INDIAN HISTORY AND POLITICS IN SHASHI THAROOR’S “THE GREAT INDIAN NOVEL”", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 7, page no.k58-k67, July-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2307A08.pdf

"EXPLORING INDIAN HISTORY AND POLITICS IN SHASHI THAROOR’S “THE GREAT INDIAN NOVEL”", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 7, page no. ppk58-k67, July-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2307A08.pdf