Image of Indian National Leaders in Chaman Nahal's 'The Gandhi Quartet'

This article modestly attempts to project the image of the Indian national leaders as depicted by Chman Nahal, modern Indian English novelist, in his significant work The Gandhi Quartet, a landmark in the annals of Indian English fiction and historical work.  His fictional work mainly deals with India’s freedom movement and its socio-political consequences.  On the whole, it appears that he looks towards the history of Indian freedom movement with liberal attitude which reflected through some his ideas about the Indians and British.  The fictional characters created by him intermingle with the real historical figures like Gandhi, Nehru, Patel, Bose and Jinnah.   In general, Nahal is historically objective.  He is not the Indian national leader.  Though he appears to revere Gandhiji, it does not prevent him from showing his weaknesses.  He has also shown the failure of leaders at the time of partition including Gandhi.  He also tries to expose the conspiracy of the Indian politicians and their intentions behind the partition.