Emergence of Modern India in Bharati Mukherjee’s Miss New India

Abstract

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.