Abstract
Shashi Tharoor’s award winning work The Great Indian Novel showcases an allegorical representation of recent history and politics modelled on the ancient epic Mahabharata. . He has taken the epic as a blueprint and filled it with a contemporary cast for his witty sent-up of pre and post-independence India. The history of India’s struggle against colonial rule and her postcolonial tryst with democracy is presented in an epic vein. Tharoor’s strategy, bases on both the modern problematization of history and politics; and Indian traditions is both culturally appropriate and subversive in terms of internal affairs as well as imperial history and its modern legacies.
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