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This paper is concerned with the analysis of „Point of view‟ in Khushwant Singh‟s Short story “Posthumous”. Itmakes an attempt to investigate how Khushwant Singh achieves his spatio-temporal, ideological and psychologicalperspectives through his language. He continuously interferes with the comprehension of the readers by guiding them interms of locating the places and time through his spatio-temporal perspective. He also influences the feelings of the readersby communicating his ideas through his psychological perspective. He also presents the mindset of his characters bydescribing the commonly accepted social practices in the society through his ideological perspective. Point of view onspatio-temporal, ideological and psychological planes helps the narrator achieve his purpose effectively. Point of view is amuch discussed and rigorously explored area in fiction studies, whether in the stylistics framework or any other frameworkof literary criticism and theory. Point of view basically refers to the way a story is told, the mode of its narration. Point ofview concerns, produces, results in, perspectives on, evaluations of, events and characters. It is about influencing readers toform certain opinions, or not to form certain opinions.

A.Madhavi Latha, Dr. N. Madhu, “The Point of view in Khushwant Singh’s “Posthumous’’”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 5, Issue 14, pp. -, January 2018.