Contents: Preface. List of contributors. 1. Conflicting images: Naikar's The Thief of Nagarahalli and Other Stories/Alka Singh. 2. M.M. Kalburgi's Fall of Kalyana: a study in the revolutionary perspectives/Kh. Kunjo Singh. 3. Socio-ethical perspectives in Basavaraj Naikar's Fictional World: a study of The Rebellious Rani of Belavadi and Other Stories/Bhagabat Nayak. 4. All for Gold and Sex: a thematic analysis of Basavaraj Naikar's Short Stories/Pashupati Jha and T. Ravichandran. 5. A Kaleidoscopic vision: Short stories of Basavaraj Naikar/S.G. Vaidya. 6. Basavaraj Naikar's The Sun Behind the Cloud: A typical Indian historical novel/Jibesh Bhattacharya. 7. Turning historical material into art: a study of The Devil's Wind and The Sun Behind the Cloud/S.B. Singh. 8. Fiction and faction in Naikar's The Sun Behind the Cloud/Aroonima Sinha. 9. From static to dynamic: a critical study of M.N. Kalburgi's Fall of Kalyana/S. John Peter Joseph. 10. Dynamics of spirituality in Kalburgi's Fall of Kalyana/P. Obula Reddy. 11. Basavaraj Naikar's Kannada translations: an overview/Mallikarjun Patil. 12. Community, gender, tradition and modernity in Generations/Basavaraj Naikar. 13. The Spider's Web: a short story/Basavaraj Naikar. 14. The tale as useful artefact: Basavaraj Naikar's The Thief of Nagarahalli and Other Stories/Christopher Rollason. 15. Sangya-Balya: Betrayal: A folk tragedy/S. John Peter Joseph. 16. Success despite inadequacy: an analysis of Basavaraj Naikar's translation of Sangya-Balya/M.C. Prakash. 17. An interview with Basavaraj Naikar/Jaydeep Sarangi. Index.

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