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| Article Name : | | | THE IMAGE OF INDIA IN THE NOVELS OF BHARATI MUKHERJEE | | Author Name : | | | SUDHIR B. CHAVAN | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-2335 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | In order to understand Bharati Mukherjee's fiction and explore the image of India as reflected in her work, it is essential for us to study the biographical details of her life as they have a great bearing on her vision of life and her native country. She was born on 27th July, 1940 in a high caste Hindu Brahmin family of Calcutta, India. She grew up in an extended family of 40 members, including uncles, aunts, and cousins in the middle class area Rash Behari Avenue of Calcutta. Her father, Sudhir Lal Mukherjee, was a well-known chemist and researcher of repute who had studied in Germany and England. Her mother, Beena Mukherjee was a homemaker. Bharati and her two sisters got encouragement to get postgraduate degrees. Sudhir Mukherjee's ancestral home was in Faridpur and hie wife's native was in Dhaka, the two districts of Bengal. But at the time of the Partition of India in 1947, these two districts of Bengal became part of East Pakistan which later became independent as Bangladesh in 1971. It was due to the Partition their families had to leave their native districts and move to Calcutta | | Keywords : | | |
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