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Abstract
The India of the post-independence India resided mostly in the villages, so in order to understand India we cannot ignore the study of literature written about the rural population of the country. Gurdial Singh himself lived most of his life in Punjab and wrote in Punjabi; therefore he has an edge over the educated class, writing from the cities, when it comes to describing the day to day struggle of the agrarian society. The society united by the struggles for Independence left everyone with a question of their identity; and the West, before leaving, left some deep questions amongst people belonging to different sections of the Indian society, lack of trust amongst people, failing moral values and the introduction of western modern concept of equality left people baffled, and the present paper aims to understand all these and more in the light of modern imagination of India.