SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND MORAL VALUES IN SAHGAL’S A SITUATION IN NEW DELHI

Abstract

Nayantara Sahgal is a social and political novelist par excellence. She is well-known for her outstanding ability of coalescing artistically social, political, and personal events and incidents. Even a cursory reading may reveal that they depict the scene of the Indian politics from the last episodes of the freedom struggle to the disintegration in the mid-Seventies, in a sequence, the occurrence of the events. The narration of the contemporary political conditions in her novels is saturated with keen awareness of some elementary ideals and principles to which the author was dedicated. She has set her stories in a well-known historical situation in order to protect these primary values or to show her sadness on their absence. The present paper endeavors at exploring the social, political and moral values in Nayantara Sahgal’s novel A Situation in New Delhi.