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Seminar Paper
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INDIAN SOCIAL STRUCTURE AS PERCEIVED BY KAMALA MARKANDAYA’S NECTAR IN A SIEVE
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of
Bachelor of Arts (HONS.) in English
Submitted By: Submitted to:
K.ARPITHA DR. SMITA MISHRA
A0706111023 (LECTURER)
AMITY INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH STUDIES AND RESEARCH AMITY UNIVERSITY UTTAR PRADESH
INDIAN SOCIAL STRUCTURE AS PERCEIVED BY KAMALA MARKANDAYA’S NECTAR IN A SIEVE
Kamala Markandaya is one of the most outstanding and eminent Indo-Anglian novelists. Kamala Purnaiya was born in 1924 in Chimakurti, a small southern village in India, Kamala Markandaya learned traditional Hindu culture and values. She was raised Brahman. Between the years of 1940-1947, Markandaya was a student at the University of Madras, where she studied history. While studying at the University, she worked as a journalist, writing short fiction stories. In 1948 Markandaya decided to further pursue her dream of becoming a writer by moving to London, where she met her husband Bertrand Taylor, a native Englishman. In her lifetime, Kamala Markandaya published ten novels, all dealing with post-colonial themes in modern India. She is most famous for her novel Nectar in a Sieve, which was her third novel written, but the first novel published. Some of her other novels include: A Silence of Desire, Some Inner Fury, A Handful of Rice, Possession, The Coffer Dams, The Nowhere Man, Two Virgins, Pleasure City, and The Golden Honeycomb.
Markandaya’s best-known work, Nectar in a Sieve, is a heart wrenching tale that depicts the hardships and joys of a woman’s life in rural India. The title comes from the poem “work without hope” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The novel presents a
Seminar Paper
On
INDIAN SOCIAL STRUCTURE AS PERCEIVED BY KAMALA MARKANDAYA’S NECTAR IN A SIEVE
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of
Bachelor of Arts (HONS.) in English
Submitted By: Submitted to:
K.ARPITHA DR. SMITA MISHRA
A0706111023 (LECTURER)
AMITY INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH STUDIES AND RESEARCH AMITY UNIVERSITY UTTAR PRADESH
INDIAN SOCIAL STRUCTURE AS PERCEIVED BY KAMALA MARKANDAYA’S NECTAR IN A SIEVE
Kamala Markandaya is one of the most outstanding and eminent Indo-Anglian novelists. Kamala Purnaiya was born in 1924 in Chimakurti, a small southern village in India, Kamala Markandaya learned traditional Hindu culture and values. She was raised Brahman. Between the years of 1940-1947, Markandaya was a student at the University of Madras, where she studied history. While studying at the University, she worked as a journalist, writing short fiction stories. In 1948 Markandaya decided to further pursue her dream of becoming a writer by moving to London, where she met her husband Bertrand Taylor, a native Englishman. In her lifetime, Kamala Markandaya published ten novels, all dealing with post-colonial themes in modern India. She is most famous for her novel Nectar in a Sieve, which was her third novel written, but the first novel published. Some of her other novels include: A Silence of Desire, Some Inner Fury, A Handful of Rice, Possession, The Coffer Dams, The Nowhere Man, Two Virgins, Pleasure City, and The Golden Honeycomb.
Markandaya’s best-known work, Nectar in a Sieve, is a heart wrenching tale that depicts the hardships and joys of a woman’s life in rural India. The title comes from the poem “work without hope” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The novel presents a