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Motifs: An International Journal of English Studies
Year : 2017, Volume : 3, Issue : 2
First page : ( 85) Last page : ( 92)
Print ISSN : 2454-1745. Online ISSN : 2454-1753.
Article DOI : 10.5958/2454-1753.2017.00012.5

The Politics behind Nirad C. Chaudhuri's Version of History

Jain Charu

P.G.T. English, St. Stephen's Senior Secondary School, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. Email id: charu01jain@gmail.com

Online published on 8 March, 2018.

Abstract

The awareness of one's history plays a very important role in shaping the dreams and desires of an individual. It also plays a vital role in determining the cultural pattern of a community as a whole. Societies with unending diversities have to put in a lot of extra effort to save their own culture from the influences of the other systems. In The Continent of Circe, Nirad. C. Chaudhuri has tried to justify the behavioural patterns seen in India by giving them a space in history and establishing logic behind them. Continent of Circe, later on published as The Heart of India is a bulky book explaining the logic behind the irrationalities seen in India. This article is an attempt to help enjoy reading The Heart of India. The basic ideas of connections between history and politics would multiply the joys of reading this book.

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Keywords

Circe, Criticism, Culture, Memories, Mythology, New historicism, Social identity, The enchantress.

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