The Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Among Indians women novelists Ruth Prawer Jhabvala occupies a distinct stature in view of her assimilating foreign and the Indian experience in her novels. she has addressed herself to the Woman-Question with unusual preoccupation in her fictional writings. Polish by birth and Indian by marriage, she has brought to bear upon her sensitive mind a unique East-West ethos. Her women-protagonists demonstrate unusual courage while struggling with conservative values but quite often their aggressive postures get diluted in the process. The present volumes undertakes to explore the complex intricacy of Jhabvala oeuvre from the feminist perspective.