Social and Political Consciousness in Nayantara Sahgal’s This Time of Morning

Abstract

The present paper deals with the socio-political issues encountered after independent India represented in Nayantara Sahgal’s novel, This Time of Morning. On the one hand, the study explores the conflict of ideas between power hungry and crafty politicians and ideal and national conscious politicians. It explicates disillusionment about the functioning of democratic institutions, the calibre of the new leaders. The erosion of moral values in politics found their articulation in her fiction. On the other hand, the novel reveals the perception of marriage of both traditional woman and new woman. In a nutshell, it deals with the theme of the conflict between idealism and materialism in post independent India’s political world and tradition and modernism in the lives of man woman relationship in the society.