Indian Society and Religion in Vikram Seth’s ‘A Suitable Boy’

Abstract

This critical analysis looks at how Indian society and religion are portrayed in Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy. The year 1993 saw the publication of this fictitious work. The setting of A Suitable Boy is a recently independent, post-partition India. The stories of multiple families from various origins are combined in this book to provide a broad overview of Indian society, culture, and religious ideas in addition to ethos and bathos. This study deals with the various cultural elements which Vikram Seth portrays and contributes to the in-depth understanding of Indian culture and how it is represented in Literature, it also throws light on which cultural dynamics shape individual experiences and identities. Despite the fact that Seth has depicted cultural variety in this work, there is still peace and unity because all of the characters live under one roof, regardless of their differences in gender, religion, culture, case, or economic status. That is, a single nation.