Abstract
The genre, novel, occupies a prominent place in literature. Novel
writing has its genealogy in the Western Intellectual episteme. It has
its own normative principles and stereotype to write. It constitutes
culture of that specific place, experience, and a way of going about in
the world. Though novel is a brain child of Western intelligentsia,
Indian novelists have their own way–generic convention–of narrating
their experiences and traditions. There is a lot of debate and argument
in Indian academia that the contemporary Indian novelists have not come
out from the yoke of orientalist approach. Placed in this context, the
present paper makes a modest attempt to read S L Bhyrappa’s, a well-
known novel, Scion to investigate this melting pot discussion along with
this tries to answer–when writers share their cultural experiences and
engages with Indian tradition and representing the reality of the Indian
society–shall we consider them as fundamentalists, rightists or
traditionalists? Or are Indian novelists give a subtle picture of the
kind of ideas and conceptions that shaped the world?