Kamala Markandaya is a post-independent Indian novelist and journalist, a native of Mysore, India. Markandaya was a graduate from the University of Madras, and published several short stories in Indian newspapers. After India declared its independence, Markandaya moved to Britain, but labeled herself an Indian expatriate. The paper is an attempt to make a review of articles on Markandaya's works. The paper entitled "Criticism on Kamala Markandaya's novels: A Review" explores the central idea of Markandaya's novels to explorethe themes like struggle between tradition and modernism, poverty and hunger, race conflicts, east-west encounters, fatalism, politics and human relationships, feminism, industrialization, poverty, east-west conflicts, identity crisis, cultural estrangement, cultural rootlessness and exile. A review of articles on Markandaya's select novels paves way to understand researcher's findings and their effort to derive further scope of research in her novels. © Serials Publications.