Caste of Indian English Novel Makarand R Paranjape Though it may appear that brahmins have dominated the Indian English novel, what actually binds them together is not the incidental fact that they all belong to the same 'varna' so much as their repudiation of several of those structures and values, which are compulsory to their belonging to the 'varna'. What these novelists have in common is not that they are brahmins as much as that they are all de-brahminised.
