The present research paper proposes to examine the representation of community experience in early and late-nineteenth century Indian novels in English. The current paper attempts to establish how Indian novels started a new way of representing human problems, which is, as problems rooted in a socio-political context where the modern narratives concerned with the problem of communities in the society. In this regard, the report suggests that thematic comparative analysis between Indian traditional story narratives and modern select Indian Novels is the main focus. During the Early and late-nineteenth century, Indian novels have dealt with social issues, problems and evils prevalent in Indian society on the other hand the Indian story tradition before the nineteenth century, too represented similar human issues which were concerned with moral issues of an individual. These narratives main concentration on the moral reformation of an individual, but not the community oriented and the aspect of social was conspicuously absent in these literatures. The area of research, broadly speaking is Indian novels in English; and the object of this study is the representation of community experience in Indian novels. The paper has been divided into four sections for communication purpose as follows: first section about the representation of community experience in Panchatantra stories, second section deals about the representation of community experience in Untouchable by Mulkraj Anand, third section about the Comparative analysis of the representation of community experience in both narratives, and final section about the conclusion.
Keywords: Traditional narratives, Early-Indian novels, Community Experiences, Indian Writing in English
