Bhaskar Chettri1 & Dhananjay Tripathi2
1Research Scholar, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Sikkim, Orcid Id: 0000-0002-1826-3074. phen16016@nitsikkim.ac.in
2Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Sikkim, Orcid Id: 0000-0003-0718-1898. dhananjaystripathi9@nitsikkim.ac.in
Volume 11, Number 2, July-September, 2019 I Full Text PDF
DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v11n2.11
First published September 30, 2019
Abstract
Paul Scott’s The Jewel in the Crown (1966) is analyzed in the light of multiculturalism, considering different aspects of oriental study, the response to hegemonic belief and the question of the subaltern. Scott traces the essence of understanding among different individuals in the Raj era, missed by many writers writing of that tumultuous phase in Indian history. Aiming at the unification of the binaries, he depicts real picture of India presenting human life in extraordinary situations and comments on the shared experiences of different characters. He traces multiculturalism in the period that witnessed steady growth and evolution of ideas revolving around modernism, colonialism, postmodernism, postcolonialism and nationalism. The cultural mosaic of India is presented in the novel by examining the politics of difference and the politics of recognition. After a long time when the novel is read in the context of colonial and postcolonial study, the present paper attempts to highlight nuances of multiculturalism, where unity is aimed between the East and the West.
Keywords: multiculturalism, orientalism, postcolonialism, Raj novel, Paul Scott
