In one novel by this author, the protagonist becomes the apprentice of Apu, that's right, Apu, after leaving Damodar's gang in the hopes of winning Apu's daughter Nalini as his bride, and in another, the protagonist stalks his wife after discovering a picture of another man in her trunk and is upset by her using the family's silver cups to pay the Swami.  
In one novel by this author, the protagonist becomes the apprentice of Apu, that's right, Apu, after leaving Damodar's gang in the hopes of winning Apu's daughter Nalini as his bride, and in another, the protagonist stalks his wife after discovering a picture of another man in her trunk and is upset by her using the family's silver cups to pay the Swami.  In addition those novels about Ravi and Sarojini and Dandekar, this author wrote a novel in which Biswas criticizes another character's friendship with the foreign doctor Kenny and the leper Puli is adopted by the couple Nathan and Rukmani.  FTP, name this Indian author of A Handful of Rice, A Silence of Desire, and Nectar in a Sieve.
In one novel by this author, the protagonist becomes the apprentice of Apu, that's right, Apu, after leaving Damodar's gang in the hopes of winning Apu's daughter Nalini as his bride, and in another, the protagonist stalks his wife after discovering a picture of another man in her trunk and is upset by her using the family's silver cups to pay the Swami.  
Kamala Markandaya or Kamala Purnaiya Taylor