Dr. Sunita Rani Assistant Professor(Ad-hoc) Dayanand P.G. College, Hisar, Haryana( India) Published in 1958, The Guide is the most acclaimed novel of R. K. Narayan that won him not only immense popularity but also the Sahitya Academy Award for 1960. Of all the Indian novelists writing in English, Narayan alone has the distinction of being…
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R.K. Narayan’s The Guide : A Socio-Economic Discourse
Leena Sarkar The article examines the socio-economic problem of the novel The Guide by R.K.Narayan. The characters are situated against the backdrop of Post-Independence economic theories of India and analysed in the light of those theories. There is also a discussion of the impact of westernization and modernization and how the new culture, new ideologies,…