Two Values at the Crossroads : A Study on the Novel of Kamala Markandaya

Kamala Markandaya, a female doyen of Indian fiction in English has increasingly become a cynosure of fiction-reasing public both in India and abroad. Many erudite volumes and scholarly research papers have been published on her fictional art, but, inspite of their immense information and enlightenment, one important facet of her art seems worth deeper probing; clash of values, Indian and Western, traditional and modern, scientific and spiritual. The present Volume makes an attempt at exploring this conflict in Markandaya's novels which constitutes the main fabric of her fictional world. The art of the novelist, with her gripping power of story-telling and delineation of true-to-life characters, both Indian and Western, merits special investigation which the present book aims at.