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this theme skilfully in his short story,"The Man Who Did Not Want to Remember". The sense
of identity in Markandaya's novels is more affirmative in the philosophical rather than the
sociological context.
JAIN, JASBIR "The Novels of Kamala Markandaya." Indian Literature 18, no.2 (1975): 36-
43.
In the novels of Kamala Markandaya, two sets of values exist side by side. There are
some characters who travel both worlds, absorbing the human and elemental in both. Valmiki
in Possession is divided between two worlds: Caroline's material ome and the Swamy's
spiritual one. By the end of the novel, he has become strong and independent, helped by the
Swamy's visit to the West. Kenny in Nectar in a Sieve and Helen in The Coffer Dams are
other characters who can go across the racial divide to the world of Indian labourers. In The
Nowhere Man, there are two worlds, one of white superiority and racial hatred represented
by Fred Fletcher, and the other of abject integration with British society represented by
Laxman. But there is also a third world, inhabited by human beings, frail and fallible; Srinivas,
his wife Vasantha and Mrs Pickering belong to this world. In Two Virgins, the two worlds of
Lalitha and Saroja do not meet to give rise to a third world, it is Saroja's world which
metamorphoses into a new force
JAIN, N. K. "Kamala Markandaya: Nectar in a Sieve." Major Indian Novels, edited by N.
S. Pradhan (New Delhi:Arnold-Heinemann, 1985):74-89. Also Atlantic Highlands, New
Jersey: Humanities, 1986, xii + 266
Examines the narrative technique of the novel in relation to its theme and style. A large
part of the success of the novel is due to the choice of Rukmani, a literate peasant woman, as
protagonist and narrator. The simple, unadorned prose accords with the nature of the
narrator. Nectar in a Sieve presents an authentic picture of village life in transition. Kenny, the
white doctor, provides the spokesman for modernity.
JAMEELA BEGUM, A. "Glimpses of Indian Women in Kamala Markadaya's Novels."
Commonwealth Quarterly no.36 (1987): 17-23.
In exploring the female consciousness of Indian women, Markandaya fuses her own
imaginative conception of traditional images with the changing realities of existence. Begum
declares that it is unfair to dismiss Markandaya as a writer "reacting not to a specific village in
India but to the Western audience's image of an Indian village" (Shyamala Venkateswaran's
words). Markandaya writes about rural women in Nectar in a Sieve and Two Virgins, and the
economically independent urban woman in Some Inner Fury and Possession. Her spirituality is
stressed in The Nowhere Man.
JHA, RAMA. "Kamala Markandaya: An Overview" Perspectives of Indian Fiction in English,
edited by M. K. Naik (1985): 161-73.
Expository, tracing Markandaya's development as a novelist by analysing he novels
chronologically. The novels focus on the changinging socio economic scene in India. Her
characters are memorable, especially women like Rukmini and Sarojini, whose strength lies in
acceptance.
JHA, REKHA. The Novels of Kamala Markandaya and Ruth Jhabvala: A Study in East-
West Encounter, New Delhi: Prestige Publishers, 1990, 176pp.