Kamala Markandaya was a British Indian novelist.
Born in Mysore, India to an upper-middle-class Brahmin family, Markandaya studied at Madras University before working as a journalist. When India declared independence from Britain in 1947, Markandaya moved to London, England.
Markandaya's first novel, Nectar In A Sieve (1954), received critical acclaim and became a bestseller, earning the author a place among the prominent Indian writers of her time. She published ten other novels, including the posthumous Bombay Tiger. Her work often explored themes related to social issues, gender roles, cultural clashes, and the complexities of modernization in India.
Kamala Markandaya's Nectar In A Sieve is a 1954 novel about a family of Hindu farmers living in a remote Indian village over several decades in the first half of the twentieth century. During a period of urbanization, the family navigates...
