About the author:
Rama Metha was born in Nainital, India, in 1923. She was one of
India's foremost sociologists as well as a prolific novelist. The first
woman to be appointed to India's foreign service, she was forced
to resign her post upon marriage. Ramam Mehta lived with
her husband in Udaipur, where her novel 'Inside the haveli' is set.
Rama Metha died in 1978.
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