Miss New India is
Bharati Mukherjee
Bharati Mukherjee (July 27, 1940 – January 28, 2017) was an Indian American-Canadian writer and professor emerita in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She was the author of a number of novels and short story ...
's eighth novel.
It was published in 2011 by
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (; HMH) is an American publisher of textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers and adults. The company is based in the Financial Dist ...
.
Miss New India is "the third part of a trilogy that began with
Desirable Daughters
''Desirable Daughters'' (2002) is the first in a trilogy of novels by Bharati Mukherjee which includes '' The Tree Bride'' (2004), followed by '' Miss New India'' (2011). The book was originally published by Hyperion / Theia.
Plot
The novel i ...
(2002) and
The Tree Bride
''The Tree Bride'', (2004) is a historical novel by Bharati Mukherjee. It is the sequel to ''Desirable Daughters''.
Plot introduction
The quiet brahmin girl from Bengal becomes a passionate resister of foreign rule, against the British Raj. ...
(2004)."
Plot
Anjali Bose, a young woman, escapes to
Bangalore
Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ...
from her stifled existence in the backward and provincial state of
Bihar
Bihar (; ) is a state in eastern India. It is the 2nd largest state by population in 2019, 12th largest by area of , and 14th largest by GDP in 2021. Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West Be ...
in India. In Bangalore she experiences the newly exploding wealth and growth of the city. She obtains employment in a call center and finds herself surrounded by entrepreneurs and fortunes. Along the way, she overcomes hardships and obstacles to ultimately reinvent herself. The title and the story are a metaphor for the new India that is prosperously emerging on the world stage.
[ The title and story also allude to the old India and the new.][
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2011 American novels
Novels by Bharati Mukherjee
Novels set in Bangalore
Novels set in Bihar
Houghton Mifflin books
Literary realism
Novels about businesspeople