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The Great Indian Novel is a satirical novel by Shashi Tharoor, first published by Viking Press in 1989. It is a fictional work that takes the story of the Mahabharata, the Indian epic, and recasts and resets it in the context of the Indian independence movement and the first three decades post-independence.
- Shashi Tharoor
- 1989
1. Jan. 1989 · Ved Vyas, India's oldest surviving politician from the days of Raj, reveals behind-the-scenes atrocities in India's struggle for independence. Genres Fiction India Historical Fiction Indian Literature Mythology Humor Politics. ...more.
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In this award-winning, internationally acclaimed novel, Tharoor has masterfully recast the 2,000 year-old epic, The Mahabharata, with fictional but highly recognizable events and characters...
A fictional work that reimagines the Mahabharata as a history of India from independence to the 1980s. The novel features historical figures as mythological characters and uses puns and allusions to other works about India.
In this award-winning novel, Shashi Tharoor has masterfully recast the two-thousand-year-old epic, The Mahabharata, with fictionalized but highly recognizable events and characters from twentieth-century Indian politics.
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1. Sept. 2011 · In this award-winning novel, Shashi Tharoor has masterfully recast the two-thousand-year-old epic, The Mahabharata, with fictionalized but highly recognizable events and characters from twentieth-century Indian politics.
- Shashi Tharoor
12. Sept. 2014 · The Great Indian Novel. Shashi Tharoor. Penguin Books Limited, Sep 12, 2014 - Fiction - 640 pages. The Mahabharata meets modern Indian history in an intellectual roller coaster ride of a novel In...
