The present article attempts a Fanonean appraisal on the twin literary jewels of Indian English literature namely Raja Rao’s Kanthapura (1938) and Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan (1956). Though written in the second half of the 20th century, and despite its avowed African commitment, it seems to be a prophecy on the plight of our nation too. Fanon delves at length how ill equipped are the former colonies to function as independent nations and proffers an excoriating criticism on present day bourgeois nationalism in third world nations. The latter is a paean on the cult of vociferous revolution and it unravels how anticolonial sentiments may address the venture of decolonization. Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) is a renowned postcolonial thinker known for his two seminal works Black Skin and White Masks (1986) and The Wretched of the Earth (1991).
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