Contested lands: Agriculture and war under empire in Mulk Raj Anand’s Punjab Trilogy
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature
Published online on February 12, 2026
Abstract
Literature, Critique, and Empire Today, Ahead of Print.
The novels of Mulk Raj Anand’sPunjab Trilogyjuxtapose crises of agrarian experience in British held India with those of global warfare. The three novels feature epistemologies of land that were the basis of conflict at the beginning of the twentieth ...
The novels of Mulk Raj Anand’sPunjab Trilogyjuxtapose crises of agrarian experience in British held India with those of global warfare. The three novels feature epistemologies of land that were the basis of conflict at the beginning of the twentieth ...