Khushwant Singh as a Historical Novelist

Abstract

Historical fiction is a genre in which the plot is set amidst historical events or more generally, in which the author uses real events but adds one or more fictional characters or events, or changes the sequence of historical events. Historical fiction may, centre on historical or on fictional characters, but usually represents an honest attempt based on considerable research to tell a story set in the historical past as understood by the author's contemporaries. Those historical settings may not stand up to the enhanced knowledge of later historians