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{{Infobox book
| name = Cuckold
| image = Cuckold (novel).jpg
| caption = First edition
| author = [[Kiran Nagarkar]]
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| country = India
| language = English
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| published = 1997, HarperCollins India
| media_type = Print, ebook
| pages = 609 pages
| isbn = 9788172232573
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'''''Cuckold''''' is a 1997 book by [[Indian people|Indian]] author [[Kiran Nagarkar]] and his third novel.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Deshpande|first=Anirudh|title=Interpretative Possibilities of Historical Fiction: Study of Kiran Nagarkar's Cuckold|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|date=11–17 May 2002|volume=37|issue=19|pages=1824–1830|jstor=4412103}}</ref> It is a historical novel set in the [[Rajput]] kingdom of Mewar, India during the 16th century that follows the life of Maharaj Kumar, a fictional character based upon the Mewar prince [[Bhoj Raj]] whose wife [[Mirabai]] thinks of Lord [[Krishna]] as her husband and refuses to accept Bhoj raj.<ref>[https://books.google.co.in/books?id=ORuGBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=cuckold+novel&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj94qy_0cnxAhX0zzgGHbFhDMIQ6AEwAHoECAAQAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false]</ref>

==Synopsis==
The book follows the life of Maharaj Kumar and his attempts to win the affections of his wife Mira while war ravages the land around them.

==Critical reception==
''Cuckold'' is considered to be one of Nagarkar's most well known novels and in 2000 he won India's National Academy of Letters Award ([[Sahitya Akademi Award]]) for the work.<ref>{{cite news|last=SHARMA|first=KALPANA|title=The artful storyteller|url=http://www.hindu.com/lr/2006/03/05/stories/2006030500320100.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060314233118/http://www.hindu.com/lr/2006/03/05/stories/2006030500320100.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 March 2006|accessdate=21 October 2013|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|year=2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Wiemann|first=Dirk|title=Genres of Modernity: Contemporary Indian Novels in English|year=2008|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=978-9042024939|pages=131–156|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-HvFnWLnyFAC&q=%22Cuckold%22+Nagarkar&pg=PA131}}</ref> The book has been praised for its "blending of traditional narrative against a historical backdrop presented with relentless detail".<ref>{{cite book|last=Sanga|first=Jaina C.|title=South Asian Novelists in English|year=2003|publisher=Greenwood|isbn=978-0313318856|page=179|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qlpKOzsOc-IC&q=%22Cuckold%22+Nagarkar&pg=PA179}}</ref> Makarand R. Paranjape considered it to be part of a canon of [[Indian English]] novels.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y9NJRBIxrUQC&pg=PA130|last=Paranjape|first=Makarand R. Paranjape|title=Another Canon: Indian Texts and Traditions in English|publisher=Anthem Press|year=2009|pages=130–147|isbn=9781843318040}}</ref> Gore Vidal called it, "a fascinating book, a sort of fantastic marriage between the [[Thomas Mann]] of ''[[Royal Highness (novel)|Royal Highness]]'' and the [[Lady Murasaki]]."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nybooks.com/books/authors/kiran-nagarkar/ |title=Kiran Nagarkar |publisher=[[New York Review Books]] |author= |date= |accessdate=October 21, 2013}}</ref>

==References==
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{{Sahitya Akademi Award for English}}

[[Category:1997 novels]]
[[Category:HarperCollins books]]
[[Category:Indian English-language novels]]
[[Category:Novels set in India]]
[[Category:Novels set in the 16th century]]
[[Category:1997 Indian novels]]
[[Category:Sahitya Akademi Award-winning works]]

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