Myths of the Nation

What are the links between fiction, cultural identity, and history? Myths of the Nation explores the ideological framework underlying the historical fiction that has been written in the context of Indian nationalism. It prepares the ground for the `easy interchangeability' between fiction and history that occurs in the construction of identity. It raises questions related to the writing of history as a site for an ideological encounter between the colonizer and the colonized. In Myths of the Nation, the author allows us a speculative insight into the reasons why fiction is relevant to any question of India's pre-Independence history.