Volume : IV, Issue : X, October - 2014

RUTH PRAWER JHABVALA AS AN INDIAN WRITER

P. Saranyadevi, D. Ramya

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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala being an Anglo – Indian novelists, picked up the threads of Anglo– Indian fiction with a new perspective and found a unique place among the Anglo – Indian novelists. She is essentially a European writer who lived for sometime in India and expressed through her words, the experience of Indian life and society. Jhabvala’s fiction is concerned with Indian theme and obsession. Her awareness of various aspects of Indian life establishes the Indianness of her fiction. Living in Delhi in the years after independence, Jhabvala has had opportunities of exercising her powers of close observation on the milieu that changes chameleon – like from local to cosmopolitan, from traditional to conventional, from native to sophisticated. Jhabvala has her own style and technique to portray the predicament of individuals in their relationship with their families. She stands apart from the subject, sees the character and events as a whole, as a part of the consistent pattern she has drawn; and her concern is to see how art can arrange and re– arrange the shifting events of Indian life. Jhabvala has prying eye for the problems like the east– western counter, westernization, education, sex and marriage exploitation and democracy which are common in Indian society. Her characters travel in the quest of better knowledge of their own minds and hearts although they journey through an Indian landscape. Jhabvala uses the novel as a powerful medium for presenting the problems of the Indian society and suggesting ways and means to solve the problems.

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P.Saranyadevi, D.Ramya Ruth Prawer Jhabvala as an Indian Writer Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.4, Issue : 10 October 2014

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