The present book is an exhaustive and insightful study of Kamala Markandaya’s vision of life, as revealed in her novels, within the limits of family, society, politics, economics, religion, morality and culture. It is an attempt to determine the nature of her vision; the novelist affirms that the institutions governing human life are subject to change-drastic as well as gradual-and therefore what is ideal to-day is bound to become obsolete tomorrow. Thus the life that is lived within the bounds of utility is good, and the rest of goodness is held by the common feeling of happiness; however, the real and the idea must impinge on each other. As in recent years most of the critical attention has been given to either the ‘Big Three’- Anand, Narayan and Raja Rao-or the "Rushdie’s Children’- Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh and other-or the new fictional voices like Arundhati Roy and Jhumpa Lahiri, a full-length study of Kamala Markandaya’s novels, I hope, should be of interest and profits to scholars, students and general readers alike.
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