Analysis Of The Village By Lal Singh

Lal Singh is an Indian who is born into a peasant family in Punjab and he grows up in the peasant family in his village in Punjab. The situation of farmers during 1939 was that agriculture was a diminishing profession and industrialization was what the British Rule in India was aiming for claiming that India was an old civilization but it was a backward civilization. Lal Singh feels trapped in his village and in his religion Sikhism and eaves his village to join the British Army and serve as a soldier. The troubles that Lal Singh faces while in the British Army makes him realize that he will return to his village one day: “ but not yet, not for a while.” P.285. While he is still serving in the British Army his father Nihal Singh dies and the novel ends with the death of Nihal Singh. The village is the first part of Anand’s Trilogy based in Punjab, The Village is not self-contained story and it does not offer any remedial measures for social injustices. However in The Village Anand uses Lal Singh to show that the destruction of the agricultural profession and the village is due to colonialism and not due to the villagers themselves. The book describes the vivid expression and the experiences of the Singh family in the village in details. The author does not describe the Village and the peasants in an imaginative way but places the …show more content…
An excited Lal Singh joins the Boy Scouts and becomes the patrol leader. The incident that made him the patrol leader was his courage to save the Deputy Commissioner from a water buffalo. The Boy Scouts was a strategy of the British to make the peasant youth of Indian identify with the British culture, Harbans Singh the landlord in the novel however looks at this type of indoctrination as taking away the identity of the Indian peasant youth and threatening the very existence of that identity though