Realism and Reality: The Novel and Society in India

by Meenakshi Mukherjee

Extremely broad in scope, this socio-literary study provides an examination of the emergence of the novel in India during the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century. Every major novelist of the period is accounted for, including Bankimchandra Chatterji, Saratchandra Charrtejee,
Rabindranath Tagore, and Premchand and Anantha Murthy.

218 pages, Paperback

First published May 12, 1994