Vol. 1, Issue 1, Part D (2014)

Abstract
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala an American-British-German, Polish, by birth (1927), educated in England, came to India as a bride in 1951 and picked up the threads of Anglo-Indian fiction, with an entirely new perspective. She has a unique place among the Anglo-Indian novelists of post-independence era being an outsider. She viewed this unknown Indian society with awe and wonder and that there is tremendous enthusiasm and everything Indian is marvelous. She described in detail the Indian railways stations, Indian bazaars and many social customs like ‘mundan’, ‘namkaran’, ‘annprashan’ and most of all the arranged marriage system of India which is something entirely new and intriguing to Mrs. Jhabvala western mind.