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This paper seeks to examine Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve and A Handful of Rice, to see if the analysis could yield insights into the subaltern culture in rural areas of India in terms of marginality, power relations, subjectivity, hegemony, transculturation, and so on. Kamala Markandaya is undoubtedly a distinguished novelist on the contemporary literary scene who zoom in to the real life of Indian people, their sufferings, miseries, troublesome life, exploitation, their domestic bliss. The ‘educated’ people exploits the marginalised people. The city life attracts the poor village folks with all its luxury and comforts. Thus, the poor rustic people leaves their land and reaches the city in search of green pastures. But they are actually trapped in the web of ignorance.