Purnima Anil & Sandhya Saxena 
Political Novel 
The Beaten Track and The Path Ahead

Being the unacknowledged legislator of the world a literary artist derives substance for his legislation from diverse sources including politics. In the bewildering modern world which witnesses the overthrow of existing conceptualized versions and definitions political situations have also altered astonishingly. Politics, today, has acquired awesome dimensions. Socio-political dialectics dominate the global society and resultantly the world of literature, too. Present anthology surveys the premises of political consciousness in Indian English fiction since the days of Indias first political novel that gave India her national song to the recent times when novelists are busy exploring the wider connotations of politics. The odyssey of Indian political novel in English is marked with sweeping waves of change whose action is measured through various synoptic papers on the giants of Indian fiction like Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand, Bhabani Bhattacharya, V. S. Naipaul, Chaman Nahal, Khushwant Singh, Anita Desai, Nayantara Sahgal, Salman Rushdie, Shashi Tharoor, Rohinton Mistry, Amitav Ghosh and Aravind Adiga. Moreover, a survey of the fiction of Sunil Sharma, P. C. K. Prem and P. V. Jaganmohan offers a glance at the wider perspective and current trends in the field of political novel. In an era when everything is politics the anthology will certainly be of great help to the teachers, researchers and scholars of English literature.