A Perpetuity of Lesser Emptiness: The Social Space of the Postcolonial Small Town and Vinod Kumar Shukla’s Naukar kī kamīz

The article provides an analysis of the spatial configuration Hindi novel Naukar kī kamīz by Vinod Kumar Shukla (translated into English as Servant’s Shirt ). In highlighting argumentative and structural similarities between content various concepts social space literary spatiality developed Catherine Régulier, Henri Lefebrve, Edward Soja, Mikhail Bakhtin, others, proposes to read not only a rare example detailed engagement with postcolonial small town, but also text that useful method indeed theory for such town its representation.