THE REFLECTION OF INDIAN SOCIETY IN RAMA MEHTA’S INSIDE THE HAVELI

Rama Mehta, a prominent Indian Socialist female writer in her Sahitya Academy Award (1978) winning novel ‘Inside the Haveli’ portrays the personal and the observed experience of an Indian Haveli Life, its Culture, History, Tradition, Purdah and the Social System in her semi-autobiographical work. The focus of the paper is to know the varied glory of the Haveli, its Feudal Structure, the Social and Individual Life, the Rituals and Festivals, and the deep rooted Customs etc. delineated in the novel.