THE CULTURE OF HUNTING PORTRAYED IN VIKRAM SETH’S A SUITABLE BOY

Abstract

The main focus of this article is to reveal the culture of hunting depicted in Vikram Seth’s novel A Suitable Boy. Vikram Seth is among the most celebrated Indian novelists and poets. A Suitable Boy is a novel by Vikram Seth, published in 1993 with 1,535 pages and 591,552 words. A Suitable Boy is set in Post-Independence India. The novel follows the story of four families over a period of 19 months, and centres on Mrs. Rupa Mehra's efforts to arrange the marriage of her younger daughter, Lata, to a "suitable boy". Hunting has a legacy in India and we have a richly documented hunting tradition. In the novel A Suitable Boy, the author portrayed the scenes of wolf hunting and defects of deforestation in rural post- independence India. This paper attempts to portray how deforestation makes path for blood sports and the way that the author portrayed the culture of hunting in his novel A Suitable Boy.