Reflection on Post Independent Indian Socio-Political Scenario Through The Work A Suitable Boy Byvikram Seth

In this paper my aim is to reveal the socio-political scenario of Post Independent India through the novel A Suitable Boy as Vikram Seth did lot of research on this topic sitting in libraries, traveling various places observing social, political culture. Since he had spent half of his life abroad, he had no direct access to the India of fifties, which he has portrayed. As a social realist, Seth mirrors different aspects of the society faithfully. His reflection of the society, its customs and conventions and contemporary events, with vivid details establishes him as a social realist. The political situation has been meticulously presented by Seth discussing about the Nehruvian world and the eminent political leaders of the nation of this period. A Suitable Boy functions as a political fable, showing the emerging polity of the newly independent India throwing light on various issues of communal disharmony narrating the real happening.