Literary Works

To Whom She Will / Amrita (US version) (1955/56)

The Nature of Passion (1956)

Esmond in India (1958)

The Householder (1960)

Get Ready for Battle (1962)

A Backward Place (1965)

A New Dominion / Travelers (US version) (1972)

Heat and Dust (1975)

In Search of Love and Beauty (1983)

Three Continents (1987)

Poet and Dancer (1993)

Shards of Memory (1995)

“And after all that writing, I now write only short stories, which I love for their potential of compressing and containing whatsoever I have learnt about writing, and about everything else.”

 Like Birds, Like Fishes (1963)  [with the following stories: ‘The Old Lady’, ‘A Loss of Faith’, ‘The Award’, ‘The Widow’, ‘The Aliens’, ‘The Interview’, ‘A Birthday in London’, ‘Like Birds, Like Fishes’, ‘Lekha’, ‘Sixth Child’, ‘My First Marriage’.]

A Stronger Climate (1968) [with the following stories: ‘In Love with a Beautiful Girl’, ‘The Biography’, ‘The Young Couple’, ‘Passion’, ‘A Spiritual Call’, ‘A Young Man of Good Family’, ‘An Indian Citizen’, ‘Miss Sahib’, ‘The Man with the Dog’.]

An Experience of India (1971) [with the following stories: ‘Introduction: Myself in India’, ‘A Bad Woman’, ‘A Star and Two Girls’, ‘Rose Petals’, ‘A Course of English Studies’, ‘The Housewife’, ‘Suffering Women’, ‘An Experience of India’.]

How I Became a Holy Mother and Other Stories (1976) [with the following stories: ‘Introduction: Myself in India’, ‘A Bad Woman’, ‘A Star and Two Girls’, ‘Rose Petals’, ‘A Course of English Studies’, ‘The Housewife’, ‘Suffering Women’, ‘An Experience of India’, ‘How I Became a Holy Mother’, ‘In the Mountains’, ‘Prostitutes’, ‘Two More Under the Indian Sun’, ‘Picnic with Moonlight and Mangoes’, ‘In a Great Man’s House’, ‘Desecration’,  and the US edition included ‘The Englishwoman’)]

Out of India: Selected India Stories (1987) [with the following stories: ‘Introduction: Myself in India’, ‘My First Marriage’, ‘The Widow’, ‘The Interview’, ‘A Spiritual Call’, ‘Passion’, ‘The Man with the Dog’, ‘An Experience of India’, ‘The Housewife’, ‘Rose Petals’, ‘Two More Under the Indian Sun’, ‘Bombay’, ‘On Bail’, ‘In the Mountains’, ‘How I Became a Holy Mother’, ‘Desecration’.]

 East into Upper East Side: Plain Tales from New York to Delhi (1998) [with the following stories: ‘Expiation’, ‘Farid and Farida’, ‘Independence’, ‘Development and Progress’, ‘A New Delhi Romance’, ‘Husband and Son’, ‘The Temptress’, ‘A Summer by the Sea’, ‘Great Expectations’, ‘Parasites’, ‘Fidelity’, ‘Bobby’, ‘Broken Promises’, ‘Two Muses’.]

My Nine Lives: Chapters of a Possible Past (2004) [A novel of linked stories] [with the following chapters/stories: ‘Apologia’ (introduction), ‘Life’, ‘Ménage’, ‘Gopis’, ‘Springlake’, ‘A Choice of Heritage’, ‘My Family’, ‘Dancer with a Broken Leg’, ‘Refuge in London’, ‘Pilgrimage’.]

A Lovesong for India (2011) [with the following stories: ‘Innocence’, ‘A Lovesong for India’, ‘Bombay (pre-Mumbai)’, ‘School of Oriental Studies’, ‘Talent’, ‘Critic’, ‘The New Messiah’, ‘Pagans’, ‘Death of an English Hero’, ‘The Teacher’, ‘At the End of the Century’.]

At the End of the Century (2017) [Posthumous Collection] [with the following stories: ‘A Loss of Faith’, ‘The Widow’, ‘A Spiritual Call’, ‘Miss Sahib’, ‘A Course of English Studies’, ‘An Experience of India’, ‘Two More under the Indian Sun’, ‘Desecration’, ‘Expiation’, ‘Great Expectations’, ‘Two Muses’, ‘Ménage’, ‘A Choice of Heritage’, ‘A Lovesong for India’, ‘Pagans’, ‘At the End of the Century’, ‘The Judge’s Will’.]

‘The Interview’ Stories from the New Yorker 1950-1960 (1960)

‘Of Love and Sorrow’ Writers Miscellany No.10, pp.73-74 (1962) [See also in The New Statesman (1973-74)]

‘Two More Under the Indian Sun’ in Penguin Modern Stories edited by Judith Burnley (1972)

‘Day of Decision’ in Penguin Modern Stories 11 edited by Judith Burnley, pp.61-81 (Harmondsworth: Penguin) (1972)

‘My First Marriage’ in Feminine Plural; Stories by Women About Growing Up (ed. Stephanie Spinner) (1972)

‘Open City: Letter from Delhi’ The Cromwell College Reader edited by Sheridan Baker and David B. Hamilton pp.64-71 (NY: Thomas Y. Cromwell Co.) (1974)

‘Heat and Dust’- condensation of novel in Redbook, pp.151-169, March (1976)

‘The Englishwoman’ in collection Women in Fiction 2 edited by Susan Cahill (1978)

‘Desecration’ in Modern Short Stories 2: 1940-1980 edited by Giles Gordon (1982)

‘The Interview’ in Other Voices, Other Vistas: Short Stories from Africa, China, India, Japan, and Latin America, edited by Barbara H. Solomon (USA: Signet Classics) (2002)

‘A Star and Two Girls’ in The Oxford Book of Modern Women’s Stories edited by Patricia Craig (1994)

‘Myself in India’ in Swaying: Essays on Intercultural love edited by  Jessie Grearson and Carol Smith (1995)

‘The Man with the Dog’ in [Part 2: Passion, Heartache and Renewal] Love In Full Bloom edited by   Margaret Fowler and Priscilla McCutcheon (1996)

‘A Birthday in London’ in Contemporary Jewish Writing in Britain and Ireland. An Anthology edited by Bryan Cheyette (1998)

‘Three Continents’ extract in Extravagant Strangers: A Literature of Belonging edited by Caryl Phillips (1999)

‘A New Delhi Romance’ in Beacon Best of 1999: Creative Writing by Women and Men of All Colors edited by Ntozake Shange (1999).

‘Refuge in London’ from The O’Henry Prize Stories edited by Laura Furman (2005).

‘Passion’ The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction edited by Richard  Bausch & R.V Cassill (2006)

‘Two More Under the Indian Sun’ in Passages: 24 Modern Indian Stories edited by Barbara H Solomon and Eileen Panetta (Signet Classics, New York) (2009)

‘Talent’ in Sisters: An Anthology (Paris, 2009)

‘Aphrodisiac’ in The O Henry Prize Stories 2013 edited by Laura Furman (EBook) (2013)

‘The Judge’s Will’ in The Best American Short Stories [Selected from U.S and Canadian Magazines], edited by Jennifer Egan with Heidi Pitlor (eBook) (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Boston/ New York) (2014)

*‘Der Fuchs und der Rabe’ The Microcosm: Servire est Regnare Vol 12. No.2, p.20, Summer `(1939)

 *‘The Wonder Pot’ The Microcosm: Servire est Regnare Vol.13. No.1, pp.19-20, Summer (1940)

‘A Prince for Nimmi’[condensation of novel The Nature of Passion (1956)] The Ladies Home Journal, New York, Vol 74, Iss.5 pp.66-67, 154-155, 157-158, 160-161, 163-164, 167-168, 170, 172, 175-178, 180-181, 183, 185 May (1957)

‘The Interview’ The New Yorker, pp.25-29, 27 July (1957)

‘Lekha’ The New Yorker, pp.38-44, 14 September (1957)

*‘Before the Wedding’ The New Yorker, pp.28-32, 28 Dec (1957)

‘Sixth Child’ The New Yorker, pp.39-55, 05 April (1958)

*‘Better than Dead’ The New Yorker, pp.30-36, 24 May (1958)

‘The Old Lady’ The New Yorker, pp.42-47, 13 September (1958)

*‘The Elected’ The New Yorker, pp.40-45, 30 April (1960)

‘A Loss of Faith’ Yale Review 49, pp.539-554, (1960)

‘A Birthday in London’ The New Yorker, pp.52-58, 10 December (1960)

‘The Award’ Kenyon Review 23, pp. 18-31 (1961) & The Cornhill Magazine 172, pp.177-188 (1961-1962)

*‘Wedding Preparations’ Kenyon Review 23, pp.408-422 (1961)

‘The Aliens’ The Yale Review Vol. LIII, p.385-403 (1963)

*‘Light and Reason’ The New Statesman, pp.73-74, 19 July (1963) and (sent to Harper’s Bazaar ) (1963)

‘The Widow’ The New Yorker, pp.22-30, 10 August (1963)

‘My First Marriage’ Encounter 21, No.4, pp.30-38 (1963) 

*‘My Decision’ The Illustrated Weekly of India, 23 Aug (1964)

‘In Love with a Beautiful Girl’ The New Yorker, pp.31-39, 15 January (1966)

‘A Bad Woman’ London Magazine NS 6, No.6, pp.13-30 (1966)

‘A Spiritual Call’ in Cornhill Magazine 175, pp.335-354 (1966)

‘The Man with the Dog’ The New Yorker, pp.52-60, 19 November (1966)

‘The Young Couple’ London Magazine NS 6, No.10, pp.11-24 (1967)

‘An Indian Citizen’ The New Yorker, pp.38-46, 30 September (1967)

‘A Young Man of Good Family’ in Cornhill Magazine (176), pp.168-188 (1967)

‘Passion’ The New Yorker, pp.56-64, 02 December (1967)

*‘Foreign Wives’ London Magazine NS 7, No.10, pp.12-22 (1968)

‘A Course of English Studies’ Kenyon Review 30, pp.43-66 (1968) and Cornhill Magazine, pp.35-56 177 (1968-69)

‘An Experience of India’ Encounter 31, No. 2, pp.3-15 (1971)

‘Suffering Women’ London Magazine NS 11, No.1, pp.19-37 (1971)

‘Two More Under the Indian Sun’ The New Yorker, pp.34-41, 29 May (1971)

‘A Star and Two Girls’ Cornhill Magazine No.178, pp.427-450 (1971)

‘Rose Petals’ The New Yorker, pp.24-32, 10 July (1971)

‘The Housewife’ Cosmopolitan, New York, Vol.170, Issue 2, February pp.160-164, 166, 168. (1971)

‘In the Mountains’ The New Yorker, pp.32-39, 16 December (1972)

‘The Englishwoman’ London Magazine NS 12, No.6 Feb- March (1973)

‘On Bail’ The New Yorker, pp. 34-44, 31 March (1973) and Cornhill Magazine No. 180, pp.77-96 (1973)

‘Bombay’ The New Yorker pp.38-45, 15 October (1973)

‘Prostitutes’ The New Yorker, pp.43-49, 10 December (1973)

* ‘An Intellectual Girl and an Eminent Artiste’ Cosmopolitan, New York, Vol.175, Issue 2, pp. 162- 163, (1973)

‘Of Love and Sorrow’ The New Statesman 68-173, August (1973/74)

‘ In a Great Man’s House’ Cosmopolitan, New York Vol.176. Issue 5, 238-243, May (1974)

‘Picnic with Moonlight and Mangoes’ Encounter 43 No.2, pp.3-10 (1974)

‘Desecration’ The New Yorker, pp.28-38, 14 July (1975)

‘How I Became a Holy Mother’ Encounter 46, No.2, 3-13 (1976)

*‘A Very Special Fate’ The New Yorker, pp. 27-35, 29 March (1976)

‘Parasites’ The New Yorker, pp. 34-43, 13 March (1978) and in London Magazine NS 20. Nos.5-6, pp.3-20, Aug-Sept (1980)

‘A Summer by the Sea’ The New Yorker, pp.26-34, 07 Aug (1978) and in The London Magazine (NS 19, No. 4), pp.14-30 (1979)

*‘Commensurate Happiness’ Encounter 54 No.1, pp.3-11 (1980)

*‘Grandmother’ The New Yorker, pp.54-62, 17 Nov (1980)

‘Expiation’ The New Yorker, pp.44-51, 11 October (1982)

‘Farid and Farida’ The New Yorker, 15 October (1984)

‘Husband and Son’, The New Yorker 30 June, (1997)

‘A New Delhi Romance’, TriQuarterly, Evanston, Northwestern University, Chicago, Vol.103, pp. 29-50 Fall (1998)

‘Refuge in London’ Zoetrope: All Story, Vol.1. No.4 (The Cinema Issue) (2003)

‘Innocence’ The New Yorker, p.66, 26 June, (2006)

‘The Teacher’ The New Yorker, p.70, 28 July, (2008)

‘Aphrodisiac’ The New Yorker, 11&18 July (2011) and in Laura Furman’s edited EBook The O Henry Prize Stories 2013 (2013)

‘The Judge’s Will’ The New Yorker 89, pp.88-95, 25 March (2013)

‘Meet Yourself at the Doctor’ (anon. pub social research) Illustrated Mass Observation, Naldrett Press, London (1949)

‘Poet on the Shelf’ – feature article on Kipling (nonfiction) The Sunday Statesman (Delhi), July 25 (1954)

‘Bored Women’ (essay) New Statesman and Nation (Delhi) (1954)

‘On Being Shortsighted’ (essay) Times of India (Jan 08) (1955)

‘Cakes and Ale’ Writers Workshop Miscellany No.8, pp.53-54 (for Special Issue ‘A Garland for Shaun Mandy’ (1961)

‘A Marriage to India’ Illustrated Weekly of India (Aug 12) (1962)

‘Open City: Letter from Delhi’ Encounter 22. No.5, pp.40-44 (1964)

‘How to look at other people’s poverty’ Harper’s Magazine (Dec) (1965)

*‘Living Abroad 111’ (1970) (same as Introduction: ‘Myself in India’ in An Experience of India published in 1971) in Illustrated Weekly of India (1972) & London Magazine NS 10, No.5 (1970)

‘Writing for Films’ Illustrated Weekly of India, pp.24-27, 21 March (1971)

‘Resurrection and Rishikesh’ (nonfiction report about leprosy) Sunday Times Magazine (May 20) (1973)

‘Moonlight, Jasmine and Ricketts’ New York Times, sec. 1, p.35, 22 April (1975)

‘Disinheritance’ Blackwood’s Magazine, pp.4-14, July (1979) [Text of Neil Gunn Fellowship Award Lecture]

‘India Overpowers Me’ [letter response to article by Ian Jack] in Sunday Times, p.11, 3 Aug (1980)

‘Neither Love Nor Loathing for India: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Testament’ (excerpts from ‘Disinheritance’ essay) Overseas Hindustan Times. pp.8-9, 07 August (1980)

‘Books which have influenced me’ (essay) Possibly published in Illustrated Weekly of India, September 05 (Undated year)

‘The Short Story in England 1700-1750: A Contribution to the Study of Prose Fiction in the eighteenth century’ MA thesis from Queen Mary University College London (1950-51)

‘Poets on Shelves & Pedestals’ (essay)[ Is this the same as “Poet on the Shelf”?]

‘Why I write’(essay) (post 1976)

One Winter & Several People/ People in the House (pre-1952)

People in the House (pre-1952)