Two-Way Hogwash

Some Inner Fury, by Kamala Markandeya. 255 pp. New York: The John Day Company. $3.50

The best pages in Miss Markandaya’s second novel describe the manners and mores of an upper-class Hindu family, and I found them refreshing and enlightening. The rest—as far as I am concerned—is either ingenuous misrepresentation of human nature (and, I must add, the Indian political situation) or disingenuous propaganda for the future envisioned by Karl Marx. Hogwash either way.