The sources of humour in "The Two Lady Rams"
Mulk Raj Anand's short story 'The Two Lady Rams' is an example of grandiloquence,irony and mock-heroic. The confluence of these three generates humour in the story. The story revolves around a corrupt contractor, Lala Jhinda Ram who has been conferred with the title of 'knighthood' for the services rendered to the British Raj. Therefore, the governor invites him and the Lady Ram to attend the garden party. However he has two wives which leads to an agitated domestic condition. He settles the conflict by taking both of them to the garden party. The use of language in a complicated and bombastic way to draw attention and make something seem important is called grandiloquence. Calling the governor of the province 'the king's representative', 'shadow of monarch' and calling governor and his wife 'his excellency and her excellency' is one such example. Besides, the evocative description of the quarrel between the two wives with the use o...