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MUKHERJEE, MEENAKSHI. "Journey's End for Jhabvala" in DHAWAN, R.K. ed.
Explorations in Modern Indo-English Fiction ed. R.K. Dhawan, Bahri Publishers,1982: 208-
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MUKHERJEE, NIRMAL. "Heat and Dust: A Tale of Two Women" Kakatiya Journal of
English Studies 8.1 (1978):120-39.
PRADHAN, N.S. "The Problem of Focus in Jhabvala's Heat and Dust" The Indian Literary
Review I.1 (1978):15-20.
RAGHAVAN, ELLEN WEAVER. "Irony in the Works of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala" DAI 45.9
(March 1985):2871A.
RANI, K.N. "A Note on Mrs. Jhabvala's Latest Novel Heat and Dust" Commonwealth
Quarterly 1.4 (1977):34-41.
ROY, EVANGELINE SHANTI. "The Nature of Passion as a Social Comedy" Littcrit
16.1&2 (1990): 70-80.
RUBIN, DAVID. "Ruth Jhabvala in India" Modern Fiction Studies 30.4 (Winter 1984):669-
83.
Disputes accepted opinions of Jhabvala as an Indian writer and a comic novelist of
manners. Classifies her as a non-Indian writer in the mainstream of English novelists such as
Paul Scott, John Masters and M. M. Kaye. Considers her a rather limited writer constrained
by flatness of tone, cynicism and pervasive desolation. Isolates the centre of her work in her
own status as a refugee based on the American title Travellers (1973), called A New
Dominion in England. Debates the appropriateness of Jhabvala's status in the circumstances of
her actual triple displacement, having been born in Germany (1927), then living in England
(1939-51), India(1951-75) and now resident in the USA (1975- ).
RUTHERFORD, A. & PETERSEN, K.H. "Heat and Dust: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's
Experience of India" WLWE 15.2 (November 1976):373-78.
Repeats the standard critical commentary surrounding Jhabvala's fiction. Details
technical aspects, especially lack of social concern, recurring character types and the use of a
cut and splice technique borrowed from cinematic scriptwriting. Assesses structural forms and
devices as the dominant factor in the author's work.
RUTHERFORD, A. "Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Window on India" ACLALS Bulletin 4th
Series, No. 2 (1975):27-9.
Based on an interview with the author, recapitulates received opinion on Jhabvala's
fiction. Considers that Jhabvala basically examines the dilemma of people caught between
cultures,Westerners in India and Westernised Indians. Sociological analysis of women's
position has the author declaring that bourgeois values are overwhelmingly supported by the
majority of Indian women.
SAINI, RUPINDERJIT. "Economic Entrapment: A Study of Jhabvala's Householder" Journal
of Indian Writing in English 15.2 (1987):1-9.