Towards Excellence

(ISSN No. 0974-035X)
(An indexed refereed & peer-reviewed journal of higher education)
UGC-MALAVIYA MISSION TEACHER TRAINING CENTRE GUJARAT UNIVERSITY

WOMEN IN RUSKIN BOND’S INDIA: A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE

Authors:

Mahima Singh

Abstract:

Ruskin Bond has grown up during an important phase of history. He was Born and brought up in India during the 1930s when the freedom struggle in India was at its zenith, World War which lasted from 1939 to 1945 and immediately after that the event of Independence and chopping up of the country, there is a certain trauma involved for the writer who was British in color and blood but Indian in his sensibilities. One of the most important questions which he tries to raise through his fiction is the “abjection “of the Anglo -Indian and English families which remained behind after the independence. The black and white world of the British Raj has been depicted in the ghost stories of Ruskin Bond which are an allegory of wrecked world of the colonizing mission of the empire. The concerns which Bond raises in these stories don’t pertain so much to the natives. These stories underline the decayed situation of the white families left behind after the Raj was over. His ghost stories are a constant reminder of empires hollowed mission in the East and what it has done to its own people.

Keywords:

Natives, gothic, women, British Raj, anti-heroine, abject.

Vol & Issue:

VOL.14, ISSUE No.1, March 2022