This study attempts to place in a critical perspective Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's exploration of cross-generation, cross-familial and cross-cultural assimilations in India as manifested in her fiction written between 1955 and 1975. An examination of her work of these two decades reveals certain shifts in the nature and scope of this exploration. These shifts are seen as linked with the social and industrial development of India as well as with her self-confessed changes of response to India during the twenty-three years of her stay. At the same time her observations are identified as part of a literary tradition with which she has close connections-that of the fiction written by European expatriates in India.