Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi: A Polyphonic Novel

This paper explores diverse voices inAli’s “Twilight in Delhi”(1940) throughBakhtin’s theory of dialogism (1994). Multiple voices coexist in the novel in different situations. This paper aims at investigatingthe situations where the voices are amalgamated. This paper also examines the effect of this fusion of voices on the socio-political atmosphere of Delhi. Close reading technique helped in retrieval of eighteen situations in the novelwhere voices are fused, and then the actions and reactions of the characters in the novel were qualitatively probed. The paper findsthatmultiple voices in the novel exist and enhances the effect of the authorial voice. The study will contribute to get an insight into the situation in India, and how the two groups impersonated as the English and the Indian showed verbally their reactions. It will also help future researchers to view the narrative from dialogic point of view