Summary Of Kamala Markandaya's Some Inner Fury

Introduction
The British first arrived in India in the early 1600s and soon established trading posts in a number of cities under the control of The East India Company. By 1765 the Company‘s influence had grown to such an extent that the British were effectively controlling most parts of the country. This date is usually taken as the starting of what is referred to as The British raj — a period of British rule in India that lasted until Independence in 1947. initially English was solely instructed to the taught population through the work of Christian missionaries — there were no official attempts to force the language on the masses. But by the

Markandaya 's Some Inner Fury is the story of Mirabai, a young woman from a partly Westernized Hindu family in pre-Independent India. Previously confident of her place in society and her love for her country, Mira begins to question beliefs when her brother Kit returns from Oxford bringing with him a new lifestyle and his friend Richard. Mira 's love for Richard grows as the country 's agitation against the British gains intensity. Caught in the crossfire are Kit, now a district magistrate, his wife Premala and Govind, Kit 's and Mira 's adoptive brother, who is rumoured to be the mastermind behind the anti-British violence. Events come to a head when tragedy befalls the family and Mira is forced to choose between her love for Richard and duty towards her country. Some Inner Fury is Kamala Markandaya 's assertion of how no one can stand apart, undecided, when a country is divided. Thus this novel reiterates the impossibility of equality between Indians and the English as long as they continue to play the roles of colonizers and the colonized. On the whole, Some Inner Fury depicts failed relationships in the context of political