Abstract
This paper addresses the Indian writer R. K Narayan's first novel, Swami and Friends (1930). The novel has received a rather harsh criticism on the ground of its apolitical stance and failure to engage in the colonial reality during which it was written and published. Narayan's text, however, shows particular patterns of resistance to the colonial master narrative without adopting an explicit militant stand. This paper proposes a threefold argument: first, it investigates Narayan's linguistic strategy of resistance; second, it reveals his engagement in a counter narrative of an exoticized and mystified India; third, it argues that his navigation between memory and history is a tactical manoeuvre to politicize the personal.
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