KAMALA MARKANDAYA PORTRAYS THE CONFLICT OF PERSONAL AND POLITICAL EMOTIONS IN A SETTING OF EAST- WEST CONFLICT ALONG WITH THE COMPLEXITIES AND CRISES IN THE LIVES OF INDIAN PEOPLE IN HER SECOND NOVEL SOME INNER FURY

Abstract

The   talented   writer of  Nectar in a sieve ,a miniature epic of Indian village life looks back towards pre independent India’ s rural  scenario   for a novel sketched upon the complicated lives of Indian people moved by Europeanization  and a developing desire for freedom. The tragedy, Some Inner Fury by Kamala Markandaya is designed by the political uncertainty of the thrash about for   sovereignty, intercultural affairs, uprooting from one’s own culture and associated troubles, particularly with influential political stress distressing the existence of the typeset.   Here also the heroine speaks for her as a  pretty, sensitive , young lady  of higher blood fallen in love with Richard, an Englishman  whom Kit, her Oxford  educated  brother brings  home on an appointment . When Richard   first  visits elegant Kit’s house  is not at all aware of the fade wrinkles of Mira’s life and her family  and the heavy tempest which finally cracks the lovers, both have to declare  a devotion which cannot be deprived of for his own nation. But before happening this Mira and Richard achieve genuine love. Kit marries cute and timid Prem for whom Govind, Kit’s younger stepbrother who becomes nationalist terrorist has deep love. Mira works in the paper under Roshan, an active lady leader frequently imprisoned for the reason of independence. The  conflict of personal and political emotions crack  when Prem and Kit individually become victims in a fire executed by terrorist which burns the mission school, and when the court remains unresponsive to give justice ,moreover makes the  partiality deeper  between  British and Indians.