Teacher Guide

Swami and Friends Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

To complete the trilogy, please see Narayan's The Bachelor of Arts and The English Teacher.

Works of interest concerning Narayan include: "The Politics of R.K. Narayan," in Imagining India (1989) by Richard Cronin; "R.K. Narayan: The View from the Window," in Babu Fictions: Alienation in Contemporary Indian English Novels (2001) by Tabish Khair; "The Great Narayan," in the New York Review of Books (2001) by Pankaj Mishra; R.K. Narayan: A Critical Appreciation (1982) by William Walsh.

For works by other leading authors in early Indian literature in English, please see: Mulk Raj Anand's novels Untouchable (1935), The Village (1939), Across the Black Waters (1939), and The Sword and the...

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