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Title: Servant's Shirt by Vinoda Kumara Sukla, Vinod Kumar Shukla ISBN: 0-14-028717-5 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: January, 1999 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $18.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: shadows of the brown sahibs
Comment: from a very mofussil backdrop of bharat and not india, this book delves deep into the feudal and colonial remains in the collective psyche of the working system here. the thread of the book weaves through the incidents which have largely remained the same. the hero is one who has been a 'beneficiary' of the government's blinkered programme of macawley's system of 'clerical education'. and that is what he becomes in the process. a baboo in an ambience of a small place where only half of the things are moth eaten and innocence still finds a space in the relationships. of the protagonist and his wife, him and the colleagues and with his landlord.

the book is very political one in terms of a typical indian system, where the fear and punishment dont crop from rationals. infact they go beyond. the fear of sahibs, the considerations of his personal needs, his wife's need of a servant, the trnsition of real into a nightmare of sorts...the book keeps the reader tied to it with its forceful thread and a very familiar, very coomonplace, very indian setting. that its only a shirt which decides the freedom and bondage of his 'economic empowered status' is a statement on humanity at large on free india.