Weaving a Dark Tale of Violence and Cruelty: Post Colonial Review of the Notion of Nation in Rupa Bajwa's The Sari Shop

Abstract

The Indian Novel is English is chiefly a Western genre but has adapted itself very well to the Indian cultural and social ethos. In the first stage, novels presenting the lives of protagonists and other historical characters governed the literary scene, in the second stage the novels was mainly concerned with political and social issues in a realist genre and psychological novels were concentrated more on the individual and probed their tensions and inner operations. The three phases could not be clearly different from one another rather they overlapped at several point. The novel under reading had characteristics of social realism as well as psychological scrutinizing. Rupa Bajwa's novel The Sari Shop was long listed 2004 Orange Prize for fiction. He dealt with the place of Amritsar, the busy and vibrant city of Punjab.