Emergence of Modern India in Bharati Mukherjee’s Miss New India
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Bharati Mukherjee's Miss New In diais the replica of new India. The
transforming faces of the contemporary India can be found in this novel. If poverty
was the hallmark of the old India, booming prosperity has become the distinguishing
features of the contemporary India. The socio-cultural values and traditional rituals
have undergone drastic change. In the new India internal migration has become the
big problem. Certain areas, which are urbanized, have witnessed rapid economic
growth whereas villages have still been backward. In the backward communities, the
same old values have become active. Yet, the wave of cultural modernity has
penetrated the core fabric of the Indian society. In the new India, the gap between
village and town has widened. The lifestyles of the youths have been changed by the
emerging trends of western culture. Westernization seems to have made contribution
to the shifting socio-economic landscape. The legacy of western modernity,
technology transfer, economic liberalization and revolution in information technology
have brought India in the present context. By using the perspective of technological
modernity and socio-cultural modernization, the researcher asserts that Miss New
India projects how the new India emerged from the chaos of antiquity and uncertainty.