The present book is an exhaustive and insightful study of Kamala Markandaya's vision of life, as revealed in her novels' with in the limits of family, society, politics, economics, religion, morality and culture. It is an attempt to determine the nature of her vision; the novelist affirms that the institutions governing human life are subjet to change- drastic as well as gradual and therefore what is ideal today is bound to became obsolete tomarrow.
