LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 17:12 December 2017
ISSN 1930-2940

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The Investigation of Domestic Life in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s
The Householder and Heat and Dust

Ms. A. Sangeethapriya


Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is a world class fiction writer and storyteller of the present century. She has distinctive achievements as a literary artist. She was born on 7 May 1927 in cologne in Germany of Polish-Jewish parents and escaped to England in 1939. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala married a Parsi gentleman and in 1951 she came to India as a young and beautiful wife of Cyrus Jhabvala, a young Parsi architect. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is endowed with the gift of presenting minute details of social fabric and blessed with the power of keeping perception as such, her presentation of the phenomena of Indian life and her close observation of social realism is not only accurate and exact but also meaningful. She has a pyring eye for the problems which are very common in the Indian society. Some of such problems are East- west encounter, Westernization, education, sex and marriage, exploitation and democracy.

Writing about India’s Customs and Traditions

Jhabvala has been writing about India’s customs and traditions, its caste system and backwardness, its hot and heavy climate, its dire system and backwardness, poverty and dirt and dross, its disease and illiteracy, its beggars and paupers, its sadhus and saints, and its child marriage system etc. She has also written a number of scripts for film and television, many with Merchant Ivory.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has chosen the aspect of marriage without love and love without marriage in the contemporary Indian life as the subject matter of her novel. Jhabvala has recollected her sweet bitter experience during her stay in India and has reproduced them in her works. She has passed twenty four years of life in India and also established herself as a great personality of India in the field of fiction. Her marriage to Mr. Cyrus Jhabvala, an Indian architect is the result of her love- hate relationship with India.

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Ms. A. Sangeethapriya
M.Phil. English
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