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Nayantara Sahgal
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Nayantara Sahgal
This book is a comprehensive critical re-reading of Nayantara Sahgal’s oeuvre. One of the most significant Indian English writers, her fictional and non-fictional engagement with historical events and political dilemmas inextricably links her to the colonial, anti-colonial and post-colonial discourse in India. Drawing transcontinental connections with the ideas of Fanon, Foucault, Said, Beauvoir, White, Beck and Habermas the monograph juxtaposes recurring themes in her writing with the ideas of significant Indian post-colonial commentators. Tracing the subliminal tendencies in her writing to Gandhian humanity and Nehruvian pragmaticism, the book moves beyond clichés of feminist criticism and genealogical ties to unveil a unique artist who has folded nearly a century of Indian experience in her work. Drawing on novels, essays, speeches, journalism and interviews by Nayantara Sahgal, this volume will be of great interest to scholars of South Asian literature, post-colonialism, politics and contemporary history/culture/change.
Nayantara Sahgal
Summary: Study of Nayantara Sahgal, b. 1927, Indic writer in English.
Indira Gandhi, Her Road to Power
How did Indira Gandhi reach the pinnacle of Indian politics? Did India move away from freedom under her leadership? What kind of woman was she? Indira Gandhi made unorthodox use of power and possessed a highly individual style of functioning. In this book, Nayantara Sahgal persuasively argues that authoritarianism was the inevitable outcome of Indira’s personality and temperament. Her leadership marked a drastic break with the democratic tradition of her family and of Indian politics. During her regime, the political landscape of India underwent profound changes.The Emergency of 1975-77 was used to promote her son Sanjay as her ultimate successor. The entry of her elder son, Rajiv, into politics after Sanjay’s death, and his immediate political prominence showcased Indira’s essential belief in her family’s right to rule. Nayantara Sahgal’s personal knowledge of her cousin, in combination with her unparalleled access to letters exchanged between Nehru and her mother,Vijaylakshmi Pandit, makes for an unusually penetrating psychological and political portrait from an intimate family viewpoint.
Out Of Line
Nayantara Sahgal's life folds history into experience. Ritu Menon unfolds that experience into a historical narrative of surpassing appeal.' - Gopalkrishna Gandhi 'Nayantara Sahgal's personal life was enmeshed with historical events in India: Ritu Menon's biography of her is a delicate exploration of both. I enjoyed reading it very much.' - Leila Seth Nayantara Sahgal, born into the first family of Indian politics, is one of India's finest writers. Novelist, essayist, political commentator and memoirist, everything she wrote, whether political or literary, followed the evolution of democracy in post- Independence India. What connects Sahgal's fiction and non-fiction is politics; what propels...
Mistaken Identity
Vlak voor en tijdens Gandhi's burgerlijke ongehoorzaamheidactie zitten negen mensen in voorarrest op beschuldiging van samenzwering om het Engelse regime omver te werpen en de Russen binnen te halen.
Social and Political Concern in the Novels of Nayantara Sahgal
This book on Nayantara Sahgal probes and analyses the social and political concern in her novels through broad critical resources, exploring the fundamentals of human experiences. The author has tried to give a comprehensive survey and fine critical discrimination of outer and inner realities in the novels of Nayantara Sahgal. Dividing into seven chapters the concept of freedom, the sociopolitical scenario of colonial and post colonial India, and feminism are the vital points of discussion in this book, which forms the matrix of her novels. The author has reflected in the book, the crude and garish climate, the silent past, the deafening feture, interpreting the nuances of various shades of assessment, in an exciting and absorbing manner, which makes this study of special relevance.
The Day in Shadow
A Brilliant, Unsparing Novel About Divorce And Its Implications In Indian Society This Is The Story Of Simrit, Lost And Bewildered As She Struggles To Cope With The Emotional Shock Of A Divorce Plus A Brutal Divorce Settlement Inflicted On Her. Ostracized, Victimized And Shackled By Memories Of The Past, Her Only Bridge To A New Life Is Raj, A Brilliant, Rising Member Of Parliament. The Day In Shadow Can Be Read At Several Levels. It Is About Simrit, Who Emerges From The Shadows To Find Happiness With Raj. It Is The Story Of Raj, Who Passionately Believes In Freedom And Refuses To Accept Fate As The Answer To Human Problems. And, Finally, It Is The Story Of Delhi On The Threshold Of Momentous Changes, And A New Breed Of Politicians Far Removed From Everything Gandhi Stood For.
