RECREATING THE PAST CULTURE: IN JOHN MASTERS’S NOVEL “THE RAVI LANCERS.”

American critic Stephen Greenblatt who coined the term ‘New Historicism'. It was the reading of literary and non-literary texts in the same historical period. The writers could perceive the facts of the past and depicts these facts from their own concepts to create history. John Masters also wrote with historical perspectives. The research paper is about recreating the past culture in John Masters's novel The Ravi Lancers. It attempts to study the socio-cultural perspectives and also the contemporary historical events which are the subjects of his novels. This research tries to produce a critical analysis of contemporary culture and dominant culture in society.