Idols of the tribe: Conrad's Heart of darkness.--Idols of the den: Achebe's Arrow of God.--The birth of Krishna: Forster's A passage to India.--The marriage of Krishna: Narayan's The man-eater of Malgudi.--The possessed: Greene's The comedians.--The dispossessed: Naipaul's The mimic men.--Novelists of the colonial experience