This article focuses on how Amit Chaudhuri uses history against fiction and how he represents reality against fiction. In the nineteenth century , literature and history were considered branches of the same tree of learning , a tree which sought to interpret experience for the purpose of guiding and elevating man. Then came the separation that resulted in the distinct disciplines of literary and historical studies today, despite the fact that the realist novel shared many similar beliefs about the possibility of writing factually about observable reality. Fiction about history is called historiographic metafiction. This article explains how Amit Chaudhuri uses history within fiction in his novels
Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel College, Bhabhua
