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Two Leaves and a Bud

Mulk Raj Anand · 1937 CE · Novel · Indian · Modernist

Gangu, a Punjabi peasant who has lost his land to a moneylender, is recruited to an Assam tea estate on the promise of a plot of his own, and finds a labour line he cannot legally leave. The English assistant manager hunts pig and women with the same appetite, and the estate doctor's sympathy stops well short of his job. Banned in India for its picture of the planter Raj.

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Attributes

Genre
PoliticalTragedy
Theme
ColonialismClass & InequalitySuffering & EnduranceJustice & Revenge
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
EverymanVillain / TyrantScapegoat
Plot structure
ChronicleEpisodic
Symbol / motif
The HarvestThe GardenThe Prison
Conflict
vs Societyvs Person
Mode / tone
RealistTragic
Culture / tradition
Indian

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