Indian English Bureaucracy Fiction

Indian English Bureaucracy Fiction analyses a relatively unexplored area of Indian English Bureaucracy Fiction. It is an enquiry into the relevance and urgency of a bureaucratic system comprising 'corrupt' and 'courtier' bureaucrats and administrators controlled by the politicians, as seen through the lens of introspection by the authors- Anurag Mathur, Vipul Mitra, Amitabh Bagchi and Niyaz Khan in their novels Making the Minister Smile (1996), Pyramid of Virgin Dreams (2011), The Householder (2012) and Confessions at a Black Grave (2012) respectively. The Volume discusses that the bureaucracy novels are the honest reflections about the working of Indian administrative system except that of Niyaz Khan who emerges as a propagandist unduly spreading the rumour that Muslims are being discriminated against in every sphere of administration and elsewhere. The authors have very succinctly brought out that these novels are the retellings about as to how 'Babudom' runs the country. About the Authors Dr. Vinod Khuriwal has been teaching English language and literature since last nine years in various Higher Education Institutes of Rajasthan. Currently, he is working as Assistant Professor of English at Govt. Nehru Memorial College Hanumangarh in Rajasthan. He obtained his Degree of Doctorate from the prestigious Maharaja Ganga Singh University, Bikaner. He has presented papers on Indian and western thoughts, literature and aesthetics in several national and international Seminars and Conferences. His research papers have been published in Scopus -Indexed and UGC-CARE listed Journals. Prof S K Agrawal teaches English Studies, Translation Studies and Comparative Literature at the Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar. He was the founding Head of the University Department of English, Maharaja Ganga Singh University, Bikaner. He has teaching and research experience of three and a half decades.