ABSTRACT
This chapter positions Mulk Raj Anand, and the latter’s foundational contributions to the modern Indian novel in English, through the question of late style. Focussing on Anand’s historical fiction of the Great War, Across the Black Waters (1936), the study recuperates the novel’s vision of a single if internally differentiated twentieth century, advanced through the perspective of a potentially revolutionary subject – the figure of the “Third World Man”, who rises, in the period between the wars, to identify and challenge sources of racialised oppression both within the colony and across nations.
