Bhabani Bhattacharya’s Novel ‘So Many Hungers’: A Portrayal of Indian Culture and Its Struggle for Food, Poverty and Freedom

Abstract

The theme of Bhattacharya’s novels is mainly the existing pressing problems of India especially the rural India before and after the Independence. All his novels belong to the special category of novels called Indo-Anglian political novels. The form of these novels may be alien yet their themes and treatment, character delineation, plot construction and the complete content is Indian. In this paper I would like to present Bhabani Bhattacharya’s heed towards Indian Culture and its struggle for food, poverty and freedom in his novel So Many Hungers. One can very well find the reflection of Indian culture, tradition and struggle in it.

Keywords: Pressing problem, Rural India, Alien, Character delineation.