Post-Colonialism in The Writings of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

English

Ruth Prawar Jhabvala's fictions are a special connection in English with Indian literature. Born in Europe, married an Indian architect and spent twenty-five years living in India. She speaks about the insider in a significant measure in the Indian English literature as an outsider. She looks closely at the social life of the Indians she depicts in her novels. She never forgets her origins, which are, very much herself, European amalgamations with the Indians. Heat and Dust of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's ventures several aspects of postcolonial writing, including European and elite Indian imperialism, multiculturalism and hybridity, oppression in the face of gender and abhorrence of colonisation of indigenous peoples. Moreover, Jhabvala has often shed light on the different facets in socio-economic conditions of post-colonial India.

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