Hunger and Poverty in select novels of Kamala Markandaya

Even after the political independence, India was not truly free from the colonial mentality till the next decade or so. It was not only a political but also a great social upheaval that ushered in the era of Indian Renaissance. With the rise of great social reformers, the intelligentsia in India was socially awakened and could produce a good deal of writings to depict the authentic picture of the Indian people. It is for the first time that the great Indian novelists broke the spell of the glory of the great Indian past or the praise of the British culture and tradition and started a new era of social realism in literature.