Abstract
Notwithstanding its fictional character and its year of publication, 1956, “Another Community” is a modern critique of communal violence. This short story shows Narayan’s concern with the immediate consequences of a divided Indian society on religious grounds. His communal subjects are shaped according to the ideological purpose of the group. Based on exclusion and rivalry, this reflected identity stimulates communal antagonisms that revolve around ideas of nationhood and otherness. The protagonist’s savage murder becomes the excuse for violence in the hands of local politicians. The author’s intentionality avoids taking side with his protagonist who does not escape the communal duality of the Self and the Other; the rational and the irrational sides of a fake hero.
Highlights
Notwithstanding its fictional character and its year of publication, 1956, “Another Community” is a modern critique of communal violence
The question of communalism is a Indian issue intimately connected to ethnic groups and political opportunism, which has a ripple effect and reverberates throughout the world
Speaking, Narayan seems to glide over the major crisis of the 1947 Partition of India
Summary
Notwithstanding its fictional character and its year of publication, 1956, “Another Community” is a modern critique of communal violence. Neither can an essential aspect of communal violence be overlooked, that which describes the particular relationship between the subject and the group influenced by the moral principles of Dharma.
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