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mutual understanding and love. Aithal examines four novels: Some Inner Fury, set in preindependence
India, Possession which shows that the Englishwoman Caroline Bell has not
given up her possessive attitude towards India even after independence, The Coffer Dams
where the contact is based on Indian importation of Western science and technology to build
a huge dam, and The Nowhere Man which is set in England and shows the racial
discrimination faced by an Indian immigrant there.
ASNANI, SHYAM M. "Quest for Identity Theme in Three Commonwealth Novels." Alien
Voice, edited by Srivastava (1981): 128-36.
The three novels, Achebe's No Loneer at Ease, Naipaul's A House for Mr Biswas
and Kamala Markandaya's The Nowhere Man depict the tragic world of the assimilé, and
each of the three protagonists is equally helpless before the inexorable demands of the world
around him, though the first two novels are set in the colonial world, while the eponymous
hero of the third is an Indian emmigrant in England.
ASNANI, S.M. "Character and Technique in Kamala Markandaya's Novels" RUSEng 11
(1978):66-74.
BADAL, R.K. Kamala Markandaya (??)
BALASWAMY, P. "The Distorted and Distortive Mirror of Kamala Markandaya" Criticle
(October 1977):20-28.
BANERJI, NIROJ. Kamala Markandaya: A Critical Study. Allahabad: Kitab Mahal, 1990,
168pp.
Generally repeats received opinion, so most of the leading critics on Markandaya are
quoted. Contains a bibliography of secondary sources, and a letter from Markandaya, where
she states, "I do not think of myself as--I do not think I am--an expatriate writer."
CHADHA, RAMESH. "Heat and Dust and The Coffer Dams: A Comparative Study."
WLWE 10, no.1/2 (1982): 24-30.
Jhabvala's and Markandaya's novels have similar stories, and deal with man-woman
relationships. The heroes of both novels are work conscious; they take their wives for granted,
and treat them as objects. In the beginning, both Olivia (Heat and Dust) and Helen Clinton
(The Coffer Dams) are devoted wives. But they are non-conformists, and are attracted by
India, and take Indian lovers.
CHADHA, RAMESH. "Heat and Dust and The Coffer Dams: A Comparative Study" Journal
of Indian writing in English 10.1&2 (1982):24-30. [check if same]
CHADHA, RAMESH. Cross-Cultural Interaction in Indian English Fiction: An Analysis of
the Novels of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Kamala Markandaya. New Delhi: National Book
Organization, 1988, xii +166pp.
Based on a doctoral thesis. Examines cross cultural interaction in the two novelists by
comparing novels with similar themes. Thus the second chapter, "The Interplay" examines
Markandaya's Nectar in a Sieve and Some Inner Fury and Jhabvala's Esmond in India.
Chapter 3, "Getting Ready for Battle", deals with Markandaya's The Coffer Dams and The
Nowhere Man and Jhabvala's A Backward Place while the next chapter, "And Never the
Twain Shall Meet" (Kipling misquoted) compares Jhabvala's New Dominion and Heat and