A ful-wallah delivers flowerson his bicycle in the districtofMehrauli, one ofsevenancient cities that arenowa part of Delhi. Photograph by Stuart Freedman/Panos
Ms. Jhabvala said she wrote her first screenplay "as blindly as I went to India, " but her collaboration with Merchant-Ivory went on to produce more than 20 films, including "Shakespeare-Wallah" (1965), "The Bostonians" (1984) and "The Remains of the Day" (1993).