The depiction of India as a developing nation in select novels of kamala Markandaya and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

The term ‘developed country’ stands for a geographical space that provides a high quality of life, a more or less stable economy, and an advanced technological infrastructure. These nations have typically surpassed the initial stages of industrialization and agrarian economies. A third world nation like India has also been taking part in this global race since its Independence from the British rule. Markandaya’s novels like A Handful of Rice, The Coffer Dams, A Silence of Desire, Possession, Two Virgins and Pleasure City and Jhabvala’s To Whom She Will, The Nature of Passion, The Householder, and Get Ready for Battle seem to exemplify this phenomenon through the trope of the movement from the country to the city as we embrace the city for its technological advancement and progress.