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The women writers probe, and delve deep into the secret recesses of their women characters and present them in flesh and blood to strike a sympathetic chord and to have an easy access to their psychological reactions and responses, and broodings when faced with challenges and broodings over culture. They, with their sensitive perception of the human bondage, tackle the situation from the perspective of the relationship between man and woman in or out of marriage, which is intimate and most complex, and also they handle the problems of the expatriates with their psychological trauma and cultural conflicts. Jhabvala’s A New Dominion (1972) has westerners who happened to live in India. Her main concern is with the theme of a woman for her identity and her validity as a human being. Really, western women are portrayed healthier as and happier than Indian women in her novels. They enjoy greater social and cultural freedom. She, as a woman novelist, explores a fresh insight and understanding of the issues involved with the foreigners. India is seen through their eyes. Jhabvala explores their experiences and their reactions to Indians and India. This paper will show how the novel A New Dominion can be read from a cross-cultural perspective. The key argument of the paper deals with western women’s hardship, suffering and self-identity in the patriarchal society in India.