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'''Rama Mehta''' (1923–1978) was an Indian sociologist and writer who is remembered above all for her novel ''[[Inside the Haveli]]'' (1977). It depicts the conflict between tradition and modern life faced by women belonging to the middle and upper classes, no doubt reflecting the experience of the author herself.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unishivaji.ac.in/uploads/distedu/sim1/B.%20A.%20Part-II%20Opt.%20English%20P.%204%20Indian%20English%20Literature%20Sem.%20III%20Final.PDF|title=Indian English Literature|publisher=Shivaji University, Kolhapur|access-date=27 March 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.literature-study-online.com/essays/indian-women-book.html|title=Modern Indian Women Writers in English|author=Antonia Navarro-Tejero|publisher=Literature Study Online|access-date=27 March 2015 }}</ref> The book won the [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] for [[List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for English|English-language works]] in 1979.<ref>{{cite book|title=Writing the Female: Akademi Awarded Novels in English|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=msqUHrevilEC&pg=PA91|date=1 January 2004|publisher=Sarup & Sons|isbn=978-81-7625-498-4|pages=91–}}</ref>

Her earlier works include ''Ramu, A Story of India'' (1966) and ''The Life of Keshaw'' (1969). Both emphasize the importance of education for boys. Ramu does not appreciate the sacrifices his parents have made for him until he sees their heartfelt disappointment after he misses a day at school in order to go to the fair.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/7850/librarytrendsv41i3f_opt.pdf?sequence=1|title=Break Your Silence: A Call to Asian Indian Children’s Writers|author=Meema G. Khorana|publisher=Library Trends: Winter 1993|access-date=27 March 2015 }}</ref>

Mehta's critical essay ''The Western Educated Hindu Woman'' (1970) describes the contrast between women in their twenties at the time of independence who were well educated and spoke English and their mothers who spoke no English and remained devout Hindus bent on maintaining traditions.<ref name="Carroll1976">{{cite book|last=Carroll|first=Berenice A.|title=Liberating Women's History: Theoretical and Critical Essays|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dfWUZfgj1y8C&pg=PA196|year=1976|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-00569-5|pages=196–}}</ref> Her ''The Hindu Divorced Woman'' (1975) brings out the disadvantages of a woman's acceptance of divorce which she may well live to regret.<ref name="Menski2013">{{cite book|last=Menski|first=Werner|title=Modern Indian Family Law|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fOFcAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA69|date=16 December 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-83985-6|pages=69–}}</ref>

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