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Dust with Markandaya's Possession. The bibliography lists critical articles on Jhabvala and
Markandaya.
CHADHA, RAMESH. "Cross-Cultural Interaction in Markandaya's Pleasure City." The
New Indian Novel in Enelish, edited by Viney Kirpal (New Delhi: Allied Publishers, 1990):
57-64.
Cross-Cultural interaction is the major theme of the novel, and the novelist reveals her
absolute integrity as an artist by not taking sides. Markandaya employs a new style and
narrative technique, first used in The Coffer Dams, which also presented Indo-British
encounter at a construction site. There are Forsterian echoes in Pleasure City in the picnic to
the caves, but the conclusion is quite different.
CHATTERJEE, ARUNDHATI. "Rukmani, The Mother Figure in Nectar in a Sieve." Studies
in Indian Fiction in English, edited by G. S. Balarama Gupta (Gulbarga: JIWE Publication,
1987): 85-92.
Rukmani is the axis around whom all the other characters revolve. She has
transcended limited physical identities to represent the universal mother figure. Chatterjee
presents a panegyric, she does not question the value of "the spirit of acceptance".
CHAUHAN, P. S. "Kamala Markandaya: Sense and Sensibility." The Literary Criterion 12,
no.2/3 (1976): 134-47.
Chauhan feels that Markandaya suffers from critical apathy. (He does not seem to be
aware of any criticism other than S. C. Harrex's study of the sense of identity in the novels of
Markandaya, which, he feels, ignores the multiple variety of the life of her fiction.) Chauahan
attempts a rapid survey of the eight novels published to date, and praises her creative moral
vision. The chief appeal of Markandaya's fiction lies in its fable. She portrays man as a victim,
but he is never an inconsequential person. She writes of modern India with a marvellous
historical vision of the Western influences at work. Chauhan devotes much attention to The
Coffer Dams, her "finest portrayal of cultural contrasts."
DALE, JAMES. "Kamala Markandaya and the Outsider." In Individual and Community in
Comnmonwealth Literature, edited by Daniel Massa (Malta:Old University Press, 1979):
188-95.
The fundamental pattern in many of Markandaya's novels is that of conflict between
England and India, studied in terms of human relationship. In Nectar in a Sieve, the alien figure
is the white doctor, Kenny. In Some Inner Fury, the outsider is Roshan Merchant, a Parsee,
who moves with equal ease in both East and West. Possession shows East-West encounter of
a very unusual kind, and Anasuya, the detached narrator, is the "permanent outsider" as she
calls herself. In The Coffer Dams, Helen Clinton is not like the other British wives; she
identifies herself increasingly with the exploited tribals who have been thrust aside by both
British and Indians in the name of the great dam. She is drawn into the action, and is not a
mere observer. In The Nowhere Man, Srinivas stands and suffers alone, the quintessential
outsider, despite the support of his friend Mrs Pickering.
DALE, JAMES. "Sexual Politics in the Novels of Kamala Markandaya" WLWE 21.2
(Summer 1982):336-41.
DRUM, ALICE. "Kamala Markandaya’s Modern Quest Tale." WLWE 22, no.2 (1983):
323-32.