A Postcolonial Study of Shashi Tharoor's The Great Indian Novel

India had been under colonial rule for a long time. The British had occupied India and had been plundering her wealth and resources. After an extensive time; Indian great leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, and many others emerged; they united Indians, and brought India under one umbrella and emancipated India from the British regime. Postcolonial writers have dealt with the relation between the colonizers and colonized throughout the colonization period. Shashi Tharoor is known as a great post-colonial writer, he based his works on Indians and Indian mythologies. He has written about the experience of colonialism from the point of view of colonized. His The Great Indian Novel is based on Indian myths. There are post-colonial elements that can be found in this novel. The present paper would aim to identify postcolonial elements in The Great Indian Novel where postcolonial theories of A K Ramanujan, Frantz Fanon and Robert young are applicable. This paper would also explore how the British exploited Indians and how Shashi Tharoor has depicted their colonial policies in India.