*Principal, R.G.P.G. College, Meerut
**Research Scholar, Department of English, Mewar University, Chittorgarh, Rajasthan
Nayantara Sahgal is a writer in Indian English fiction with a refined and modern sensibility, and a profound knowledge of the world around her. Her contribution to the Indo-English fiction is great and unique in her precise and scholarly description of the contemporary Indian political scene. Nayantara Sahgal has written nine novels and eight works of non-fiction. She is the recipient of the Sinclair Prize for Fiction, the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Her writing is generally characterized by simplicity and boldness.
The novelist gives a graphics account of the different dimensions of the degeneration that sets in the bureaucracy in the immediate post-independence period in India. Unlike any other Indian-English novel, This Time of Morning draws our attention to the anachronisms of administering an independent polity through a colonial frame work.
The writer excels in exposing the atmosphere of greed, inefficiency and irresponsibility that has cropped up in the Indian bureaucracy due to the unholy nexus between the corrupt and sycophant bureaucrats and corrupt and opportunist politicians. In this novel, Nayantara Sahgal launches a frontal attack on harsh and ugly reality of the Indian political system- the baneful influence of communalism.
Bureaucratic Corruption, Freedom Struggle, Gandhian Values, National Political Scene, Reality of the Indian Political System
