Socio-Political Consciousness

Theme of Socio-Political Consciousness and Political turbulence in NayantaraSahgal’s

A Situation in New Delhi

G.SANKAR

Assistant Professor

Department of English

PSG College of Technology

Coimbatore-India

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Dr.R.Kalpana

Assistant Professor (SG)

Department of English

PSG College of Technology

Coimbatore-India

Abstract

This paper is aims to attempt the analysis of Socio-Political Consciousness and Politicalturbulence in NayantaraSahgal novel A Situation in New Delhi and which are also deals with the problems of women in the patriarchal society. A Situation in New Delhi is indeed representative of the situation in the whole of India. Public spirited attitudes and socially conscious idealists have been pushed out by the

It goes further than any of her earlier novels in its concern for reasons and solutions. It has neither social nor personal problems. It is a novel full of political ideas. It is nowhere connected with novelist’s own experience of politics; but the story is set in the mid-fifties. In fact the political happenings of two decades have been telescoped into less than half the time. The novelist shows her concern not with Devi or Rishad but with the meaning of revolution. She suggests ways for bringing true revolution. Sahgal starts the novel with news of Shivraj’s death and proceeds to deal with the political situation arising out of it. His own followers and partymen are eager to abandon his policies and commit themselves to the idea of progress. But these men are mediocres and unrealistic in their approach to the political problems. They are men who had never done anything with their hands. They are more concerned with the idea of progress than with progress itself. Devi, widowed sister of Shivraj, is included in the union cabinet as a mark of respect to the departed leader, though she finds herself