![]() ![]() A Silence of Desire, London: Putnam, New York: John Day, 1960.Some Inner Fury, London: Putnam, 1955, New York: John Day, 1956.Nectar in a Sieve, London: Putnam, New York: John Day, 1954.Her last novel, Bombay Tiger, was published posthumously (2008) by her daughter Kim Oliver. ![]() Her other novels include Some Inner Fury (1955), A Silence of Desire (1960), Possession (1963), A Handful of Rice (1966), The Coffer Dams (1969), The Nowhere Man (1972), Two Virgins (1973), The Golden Honeycomb (1977), and Pleasure City (1982). She was well-known for writing about culture clash between Indian urban and rural societies, Markandaya's first published novel, Nectar in a Sieve (1954), was a bestseller and cited as an American Library Association Notable Book in 1955. Kamala was a descendant of diwan Purnaiya and was fluent in Kannada and Marathi. After India declared its independence, Markandaya moved to Britain, though she still labelled herself an Indian expatriate long afterwards. A native of Mysore, India, Markandaya was a graduate of Madras University, and afterwards published several short stories in Indian newspapers. Markandaya was born into an upper-middle-class Deshastha Madhva Brahmin family. She has been called "one of the most important Indian novelists writing in English". Kamala Markandaya (23 June 1924 – ), pseudonym of Kamala Purnaiya, married name Kamala Taylor, was a British Indian novelist and journalist. ![]()
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