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Abstract
Rama Mehta’s Inside the Haveli (1977) is her only novel which won the Sahitya Academy Award in 1979 and was appreciated by other writers like Anita Desai:
“I remember the surprised delight with which I first came upon Rama Mehta’s novel and encountered the freshness of her prose, the simplicity and tenderness of her evocation of an ancient and traditional way of life, and the understanding she brought to it” (quote by Anita Desai on cover page of Inside the Haveli)