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“... the lasting impression they obviously bequeathed to the whole subcontinent, form the subtext of Kamala Markandaya’s Pleasure City. Imperial garrisons and stations have been succeeded by multinational conglomerates, staffed by old colonial hands, whose purpose is to build luxury hotels, opening up the coastline to the rich of all nations. It goes ...”

“... unattractive white woman.) The theme can be seen losing its power in the cool perceptive novels of Kamala Markandaya, an Indian woman married to an Englishman. Sex, like the race with which it was so intimately connected, has now ceased almost entirely to be a hot topic for the novelist of the matter of India. It has cooled to the ...”