Unit 1
The short story and its craft
Unit 2
The Indian story-telling traditions
Unit 3
Mulk Raj Anand’s short stories – themes
Unit 4
Mulk Raj Anand’s short stories – characterization
Unit 5
Mulk Raj Anand’s short stories – narrative technique and structure
Reading List
Stories from Anand, Mulk Raj. Greatest Short Stories. Mumbai: Jaico, 1999.
The Lost Child Lullaby
Lajwanti The Cobbler and the Machine
The Power of Darkness
A Kashmir Idyll
A Pair of Mustachios
The Liar
The Tamarind Tree
The Thief
Garimella, Annapurna (Editor). Mulk Raj Anand: Shaping the Indian Modern. Mumbai: Marg Publications. 2005. 124pp.
Naik, M. K.(Ed.). “Introduction” to Mulk Raj Anand: Greatest Short Stories.
Ramanan, Mohan and P. Sailaja. English and the Indian Short Story. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2000.
Reid, Ian. The Short Story. (The Critical Idiom). London: Routledge, 197