The Householder (novel)

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{{Use Indian English|date=December 2018}}{{Short description|1960 English-language novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala}}

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| caption = First UK edition

| author = Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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| subject = bildungsroman

| genre = fiction

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| publisher = John Murray (UK)
W.W. Norton (US){{cite book | title = The householder. (Book, 1960)|via=WorldCat.org|oclc=369105 | url = https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/369105 | accessdate = 2015-01-24}}

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| pub_date = 1960

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| pages = 191

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| isbn = 978-0393008517

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| preceded_by = Esmond in India (1958)

| followed_by = Get Ready for Battle (1962)

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The Householder is a 1960 English-language novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.{{cite book|author1=M. Q. Khan|author2=Bijay Kumar Das|title=Studies in Postcolonial Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g4DlzlVusZsC&pg=PA153|date=1 January 2007|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist|isbn=978-81-269-0763-2|pages=153}} It is about a young man named Prem who has recently moved from the first stage of his life, a student, to the second stage of his life, a householder. The book is a bildungsroman, which is a story where the protagonist develops mind and character as he passes from childhood through various experiences usually through a spiritual crisis into maturity.{{cite book|author=Nagendra Kumar Singh|title=Society and Self in the Novels of R.P. Jhabvala and Kamala Markandaya|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lE2BsDKEFCYC&pg=PA52|date=2005|publisher=Sarup & Sons|isbn=978-81-7625-615-5|pages=52–53}}

A film adaptation of The Householder was released in 1963, and Jhabvala started her career as a screenwriter by co-writing its screenplay with director James Ivory.{{cite book|title=Indian Women Novelists in English|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sz7RCY5d_sAC&pg=PA66|date=1 January 2005|publisher=Sarup & Sons|isbn=978-81-7625-576-9|pages=66–}} It was also Ivory's directorial debut (not including documentary shorts) as well as his first collaboration with producer Ismail Merchant.{{IMDb title|qid=Q3633897|title=The Householder}}[http://www.merchantivory.com/householder.html The Householder overview at Merchant Ivory website]