The Portrayal Of Colonial Bengal In Bharati Mukherjee’s The Tree Bride
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Bharati Mukherjee belongs to the leading group of diasporic writers of Indian origin. She has written novels, novellas, short stories and essays. She has received prestigious literary prizes in America and elsewhere. In her writings, she depicts the predicament of diasporic women of Indian origin. She offers myriad types of female characters, including rebels and docile ones. Though she does not consider herself a post-colonial writer, her writings have a solid post-colonial undercurrent. Her The Tree Bride is a sequel to Desirable Daughters, her previous novel. The Tree Bride deals with the destiny of people (both Indian and British) who lived in colonial Bengal. This society comprised crafty English men, the gullible and corrupt Indian Nawabs, the traditional bhadhralok and the poor. This article attempts a study of this variegated, complex society of Calcutta in colonial times.
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