Alice Perrin, Flora Annie Steel, Rumer Godden, Krupabai Satthinadhan, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Kamala Markandaya, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Arundhati Roy--English fiction in India is the common thread that binds these women. Jasmine on a String documents a procession of female writers as they march through the nineteenth to twenty-first century, using the genre of the novel to describe their Indian experience. Who are these women and what are their ...