Khanzada

Through novels like Kala Pahad and Ret, Bhagwandas Morwal has cultivated a reputation in Hindi as a writer who carves his narrative paths within the factual geography of society, nation, and culture. He typically chooses subjects that cannot be transformed into stories through mere imagination; their foundation is crafted through painstaking research and exploration. Mewat has been the center of his literary and civic concerns. He has repeatedly examined the culture, history, and socioeconomic aspects of this land. Khanzada is his follow-up novel. It is significant because it ruthlessly examines the invisible facts that are directly connected to our current national concerns. While documenting the atrocities committed against the Mewatis by the Tughlaqs, Sadatites, Lodis, and Mughals in India from the mid-fourteenth century, and the devastation wrought in Mewat near Delhi, this novel also brings to light the valor of the Mewatis that have remained largely unrecorded in history. Incidentally, it also offers some revealing insights that may offer some solace to our present, plagued by the distortions of history. For example, Babur and his arrival in India. The novel also offers some clues about the relationship between Hindu identity and the Muslim invaders of that time, the nature and purpose of religious conversion, and how this process led to the creation of the India known as the Ganga-Jamuni culture. This novel, steeped in an engaging blend of history, imagination, and storytelling, takes the reader on a journey through the rough terrain of history, of which they were hitherto completely unaware.