Literature to Combat Cultural Chauvinism:
A Response

Shivani Jha


In the humorous, realistic treatment, in satirising the unhygienic ways of life, in portraying the open interest that village folks display in other people’s affairs, and greed, as reflected not only in Mangaraj’s rapacious evil ways but others’ too, the novel critiques the society and implores its readers to do the same so as to bring about change.


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