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Pleasure City (1982), published in the USA as Shalimar, is Kamala Markandaya’s tenth novel. It echoes Markandaya’s Coffer Dams and serves as a counterpoint to her Possession (1963). Thus, in an altered landscape, the erstwhile colonizers interact with the post-colonial natives, to intensify the historical, political, cultural, and psychological complexities of their contact.

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Pleasure City by Kamala Markandaya

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    2025年

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  • Sakshi Sundaram

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Pleasure City (1982), published in the USA as Shalimar, is Kamala Markandaya’s tenth novel. It echoes Markandaya’s Coffer Dams and serves as a counterpoint to her Possession (1963). Thus, in an altered landscape, the erstwhile colonizers interact with the post-colonial natives, to intensify the historical, political, cultural, and psychological complexities of their contact.