''Inside the Haveli'' is an English-language novel written by

Rama Mehta Rama Mehta (1923–1978) was an Indian sociologist and writer who is remembered above all for her novel '' Inside the Haveli'' (1977). The book won the Sahitya Akademi Award The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which t ...

. For this novel Mehta was conferred

Sahitya Akademi Award The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...

in 1979. The story of the novel revolved around a young girl from

Mumbai Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' fin ...

, India. She marries a son of a former Indian prince and post-marriage she relocates to

Udaipur Udaipur () ( ISO 15919: ''Udayapura''), historically named as Udayapura, is a city and municipal corporation in Udaipur district of the state of Rajasthan, India. It is the administrative headquarter of Udaipur district. It is the historic cap ...

Rajasthan Rajasthan (; lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northern India. It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area. It is the largest Indian state by area and the seventh largest by population. It is on India's northwestern s ...

. The novel was translated into

Gujarati Gujarati may refer to: * something of, from, or related to Gujarat, a state of India * Gujarati people, the major ethnic group of Gujarat * Gujarati language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by them * Gujarati languages, the Western Indo-Aryan sub ...

by Anila Dalal as ''Havelini Andar'' (2003). This novel is also in syllabus of RBSE class 12 English literature as second book.

References

External links

Sahitya Akademi Award-winning works 20th-century Indian novels 1977 novels Indian English-language novels 1977 Indian novels {{1970s-novel-stub