Journal articles: 'Indian women writers'

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Nimavat, Dr Dushyant. "Indian Women Writers in English: An Overview." Global Journal For Research Analysis 3, no. 1 (June 15, 2012): 27–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.15373/22778160/january2014/27.

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Birbalsingh, Frank. "Indian-Trinidadian Women Writers." Wasafiri 28, no. 2 (June 2013): 14–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02690055.2013.758929.

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KP, Krishnaveni. "The Indian Women Writers and their Contributions to Indian Literature." American Research Journal of English and Literature 7, no. 1 (May 28, 2021): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.21694/2378-9026.21007.

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The Indian women writers are the one who mainly talks about the male ego and female desire for freedom. Through their writings women writer tries to oppose the male dominance over them. Indian women writers depict the injustices, the anguish and the despair they received in a male dominated society. Many of the writings can be considered as a mutiny against the restraints which the society thrust upon women. In this man-centered world they are trying to bring out the feminine identity through their works. Indian women writers never attempted to adopt any masculine roles to achieve themselves as equal as men, but through their writings they came across all the barrier of class, gender and space boundaries. They try to project masculinity and femininity as equal categories. Though through their works the Indian women writers tries to project women’s responses to gender questions. However, they tried to depict the fact that writings of women need not be differentiated by language or location.

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Dr. Shriya Goyal, Ms Bharti,. "Women Writers in India: Tracing Feminism." Psychology and Education Journal 58, no. 2 (February 10, 2021): 5493–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.17762/pae.v58i2.2965.

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From pre-Independence period to the contemporary times, women’s voice is gradually being heard and gaining momentum. It is hoped as well as expected that women would soon become a prominent voice making a mark in the society. Their point of view along with their decision making authority will have a definite and constructive impact on the society. This can be inferred from the literature by various Indian women writers such as Pandita Ramabai, Ismat Chughtai, Kamala Das and Shashi Deshpande. As we move from one decade to another entering the 21st century, we observe how women have been able to break the cocoon of domesticity, marking their presence in various socio-political spheres which have been usually dominated by men. Women have sought their space for expression and voicing opinion through literature. Depicting the oppression and discrimination faced in the patriarchal setup of Indian society, the women writers have pointed at the need for equality in practice as well as representation. The article will provide a discussion regarding Feminism in India, analysing each period or phase along with a women writer.

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Priydarshi, Ashok Kumar. "Manju Kapur’s ‘Home’: A Strong Voice of Protest." Journal of Advanced Research in English and Education 6, no. 03 (December 8, 2021): 3–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.24321/2456.4370.202105.

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Women’s issues in India are different from those in the western countries where a woman’s quest for identity and survival become major discourses. Writers who are conscious of the “othering” of women need to make ordinary women understand the possibility of power, of being able to control their own lives, and to have this power, not as mothers, not as devoted wives, but as ordinary women. But, Indian women writers have to first battle against the deeply ingrained critical prejudices that writing is an activity which belongs exclusively to men and if a woman writes at all, it is always a futile exercise. Manju Kapur’s ‘Home’ is a feminist discourse not only because the novelist is a woman writing about women but also because she understands women’s minds.

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S. V, Abisha, and Dr Cynthia Catherine Michael. "The Palace of Illusions-Voice of a Disillusioned Woman." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 12 (December 31, 2020): 77–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i12.10861.

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Diaspora writing is a recent trend in literature. Many writers especially women writers excel in this field. These diasporic writers though they live in a foreign land always hold their love in their writings. India is a land of myth and legends and hence many Indian writers borrow their plot from Hindu mythology which is used as a literary device. Many writers of the independence and post-independence era used mythology to spread nationalism and to guide humanity in the right path. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is a diasporic writer who always holds a piece of her love for motherland in her writings. She extensively uses Hindu mythology in her works. She uses these myths to instill courage in her woman protagonists. She tries to prove how myths guide the immigrant women to overcome their conflicts in life. Her novels explain how myths instruct the humanity to lead a righteous life.

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Gupta, Anjana. "Concept of ‘New Woman’ and Indian Women Fiction Writers." International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research 12, no. 05 (May 25, 2021): 743–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.14299/ijser.2021.05.09.

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Literature is one of human creativity that has universal meaning as one of the way to communicate each other about the emotional , spiritual and intellectual experiences that needed to build up intellectual and moral knowledge of mankind . A creative writer has the perception and the analytical mind of a sociologist who provides an exact record of human life, society, and social system. Fiction , being the most powerful form of literary expression today, has acquired a prestigious position in Indian literature. Indian women novelists in English and in other vernaculars try their best to deal with , apart from many other things , the pathetic plight of forsaken women who are fated to suffer from birth to death.

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Singh, Dr Abha. "Space and Identity of Women in Indian English Writings." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 7, no. 11 (November 28, 2019): 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v7i11.10134.

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The women’s studies have been receiving increasing academic and disciplinary recognition throughout the globe. The writers are determined to narrate, respond and react to the place of women in society. The purpose of the present paper is to redefine the image of women in post colonial Indian English literature. The post colonial Indian English writers focus on major issues relating to woman such as her awakening to the realization of her individuality, her breaking away with the traditional image. The transformation of the idealized women into an assertive self willed woman, searching and discovering her true self is described by various Indian Writers like Anita Desai, Sashi Deshpande, Nayantara Sahgal, Bharati Mukherjee, Kamla Markandaya, Manju Kapoor and many others have depicted females who are not silent sufferers but have learnt to fight against injustice and humiliation.

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Shivam Singh and Prof. Gunjan Sushil. "The Theme of Gender Violence in Manjula Padmanabhan’s Play Lights Out." Creative Launcher 5, no. 6 (February 28, 2021): 34–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2021.5.6.06.

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Many Indian women writers have contributed to the development of Indian writing in English and taken it to the respectable position. Manjula Padmanabhan is one of them. She was born in Delhi in 1953. She has spent early years of her life in Europe and Southeast Asia. Later, she returned to India. She is a playwright, journalist, comic strip artist and children's book author. In Indian writing in English, Manjula Padmanabhan emerges as a sensitive writer who aims at the presenting the realistic problems instead of portraying the romantic, fanciful notions. She is one of the Indian woman playwright who attempted to bring a positive behavioural change in women towards themselves as well as society toward women. Her plays are issues oriented and deal with social reality. Thus, her style and content are realistic in a believable manner. Her plays are majorly women centric and thus present their perspective and narrative. Thus, this paper is a study of Manjula Padmanabhan’s Lights Out (2000) in the light of gender insensitivity and violence.

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Sharma, Dr Rajni, and Mrs Poonam Gaur. "Women Predicament in 'A Journey on Bare Feet' by Dalip Kaur Tiwana." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 2 (February 11, 2020): 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i2.10391.

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The autobiographical impulse and act is central to woman's writing in India. The range of Indian women's writing generates an unending discourse on personalities, woman's emotions and ways of life. In a way, it presents the socio-cultural state in India from a woman's stance. It affords a peep into Indian feminism too. Besides giving a historical perspective, it throws ample light on woman's psychic landscape. It takes us to the deepest emotions of a woman's inner being. The varied aspects of woman's personality find expression in the female autobiographical literature. We find that a deeper study of women’s autobiographies unravel the hidden recesses of feminine psyche of Indian society. Whatsoever the position of women maybe, behind every social stigma, there is woman, either in the role of mother-in-law, sister‑in‑law or wife. The women writers with sharp linguistic, cultural and geographical environment represented the problems and painful stories of Indian women from 19th century until date. However, they have not shared the contemporary time of the history, the problems of patriarchal society, treatment women, broken marriages and the identity crises for the women remained similar. Women writers have also been presenting woman as the centre of concern in their novels. Women oppression, exploitation, sob for liberation are the common themes in their fiction. Dalip Kaur Tiwana is one of the most distinguished Punjabi novelists, who writes about rural and innocent women’s physical, psychological and emotional sufferings in a patriarchal society. As a woman, she feels women’s sufferings, problems, barricades in the path of progress as well as the unrecognized capabilities in her. Dalip Kaur Tiwana has observed Indian male dominated society very closely and has much understanding of social and ugly marginalization of women. She can be considered a social reformer as she is concerned with human conditions and devises for the betterment of women's condition in Indian Punjabi families. This paper focuses on the theme of feminist landscape. It presents the miserable plight of women characters. She has come across since her childhood. Women, who felt marginalized, alienated, isolated and detached in their lives, but were helpless as no law was there in her time to punish the outlaws. Dalip Kaur Tiwana beautifully portrays the landscape of her mind. The paper shows how Dalip Kaur Tiwana presents the unfortunate image of her mother, grandmother aunts and some other obscure women who were unable to mete out justice during their life time.

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Rai, Swati. "Focus on Women Education in Early Indian English Novels." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 7, no. 4 (2022): 029–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.74.5.

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The paper focuses on the works written by early Indian writers throwing light on the condition, need and concern for women’s education. Keeping the patriarchy as root, the Indian women novelists made a debut after independence and started producing novels dealing with themes of family, dowry, child marriage, superstitious practices, education, purdah system and widow remarriage. With their personal experiences and suffrage women novelists have paved down the path for modern writers of the time. They represented their vision of a ‘New Women’, a woman who is courageous, educated, independent and liberated.

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Dr. Gajendra Dutt Sharma. "Delineation of Male Characters and Sensibilities in the Novels of Manju Kapur: A Critical Analysis." Creative Launcher 7, no. 1 (February 28, 2022): 51–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2022.7.1.09.

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The research article aims to analyse the delineation of male characters in the novels of Manju Kapur. It tries to highlight the image of male characters from the perspective of a woman writer, who happens to be a feminist. In contemporary Indian English fiction dominated by women writers the primary focus is on the representation of women characters and addressing their sensibilities, their plight and place in patriarchal setting. As such, the male characters have been presented either with less vigour or as typical chauvinistic individual, responsible for the ordeals of women in society. In very few novels by women novelists in modern scenario do we find the sympathetic treatment given to the male characters. Considering this aspect of modern Indo-Anglian fiction, the article endeavours to examine the portrayal of male characters in women centric novels, by a woman writer. The qualitative method has been used to deduce how much and how sympathetic treatment has been given to the male characters by the novelist. In order to analyse the representation of men, Manju Kapoor's Difficult Daughters (1998), A Married Woman (2003), Home (2006), and The Immigrant (2008) have been brought under study. A comparison between the representation of men in the novels by men writers and that in the novels by women writers has been taken into consideration in order to draw an objective and unbiased conclusion.

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Mangal, Astha. "Feminism in the Novels of Shobha De." NOTIONS 9, no. 2 (2018): 13–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.31995/notions.2018v09n2.03.

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Feminism, Self-realization, Indian Women, New Women, Indian literature in English has journeyed a long way to achieve its present glory and grandeur present a good number of women writers offering through their writings the penetrative insight into the complex issues of life. The novels of these women writers analyze the world of women, their sufferings as victims of male hegemony, they also express social, economic and political upheavals in Indian society.

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Grobin, Tina. "The development of Indian English post-colonial women's prose." Acta Neophilologica 44, no. 1-2 (December 31, 2011): 93–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/an.44.1-2.93-101.

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Indian English post-colonial women's prose has seen many a change in the last sixty years since the pioneering writers gave voice to the Indian women. By breaking away from the burden of the colonial past and the traditional limitations of Indian society, the writers carved out a place for a distinct female identity in the Indian English literary sphere. The more recent women's prose addresses a wide range of universal issues of human experience, usually closely interwoven with the colourful heritage of the Indian subcontinent. As such it has become a highly acclaimed and internationally recognized global voice of contemporary India and the Indian diaspora.

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Kadam, Dipali M. "Diasporic consciousness in contemporary Indian women’s fiction in English: at a glance." RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism 27, no. 3 (October 12, 2022): 532–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2312-9220-2022-27-3-532-540.

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Diasporic literature is a pivotal term in literature that includes the literary works of the authors who are the outsiders for their native country but their work is deeply rooted in homeland by reflecting native culture, background, displacement and so on. Indian women’s literary work is at the forefront of diasporic literature. The advent of Indian women novelists on the literary horizon is an important development in the Indian English literature. These women writers have also contributed to other genres, such as drama, poetry and short stories, not only in English but also in regional languages like Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil, Kannada and so on. Some modern women writers flourish their writing in the form of fables as a literary genre in an impressive way to focus on the specific themes. In last two decades, Indian women’s writing in English is blossomed, both published in India and abroad. The present paper is the review of diasporic consciousness in select works of contemporary Indian women novelists. It focuses on the attempt to highlight the quest for identity of those women who played a crucial role in defining themselves through their literary work in diasporic background.

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Basu, Argha, and Priyanka Tripathi. "Science Fiction and Indian Women Writers: Exploring Radical Potentials." AAG Review of Books 10, no. 4 (October 2, 2022): 29–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2325548x.2022.2114760.

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Siddiqui, Asma. "The Distressed State of Colonial Indian Muslim Women Writers." South Asian Research Journal of Arts, Language and Literature 2, no. 3 (June 30, 2020): 53–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.36346/sarjall.2020.v02i03.005.

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Superle, Michelle. "Imagining the New Indian Girl: Representations of Indian Girlhood in Keeping Corner and Suchitra and the Ragpicker." Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature 20, no. 1 (January 1, 2010): 31–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/pecl2010vol20no1art1152.

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The capacity of young girls to represent a healthy new beginning is nothing new to children's literature. One need look no further, for example, than two classics: Frances Hodgson Burnett harnessed this figure's power with Mary in 'The Secret Garden' (1911), as did C. S. Lewis with Lucy in 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' (1950). Yet the way young girl characters are positioned in contemporary, English-language Indian children's novels by women writers does seem new; these 'new Indian girls' function to represent a modern, postcolonial India in which gender equality is beginning to find a happy home. Setting up a binary which positions societal values from pre-colonial and colonial India as backwards and problematic, these children's novels demonstrate the value of girls in postcolonial India - at least some girls, according to some writers.

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Bhabad, P. R. "Native Feminism in the Globalized Indian English Novel." Feminist Research 1, no. 1 (December 29, 2017): 37–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.21523/gcj2.17010105.

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Fictional medium is really very useful to know reality of society. Literature and visual art used realistically to depict several methods in which perfect description of feminism is the aim. The novel is depiction of day to day life, custom and the woman is portrayed as the key figure of Indian families and at the same time, she has been projected as the subject of suffering domestic slavery and suppression. Native feminism in India is not as aggressive as feminism in the West. Patriarchy is another name of native feminism reflected in the novels; through self-realization, it is expected that the woman can emerge as a new woman. The social realist writers have been very much interested in recording social changes and the status of women. Industrialization, urbanization and globalization have brought considerable changes in social life and status of women in India. Position of educated women is quite better than illiterate but gender discrimination still persists. To face all hurdles of their life the next generation women very boldly and intelligently achieve their aims to get their identity.

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Parameswaran, Uma, and Malashri Lal. "The Law of the Threshold: Women Writers in Indian English." World Literature Today 69, no. 3 (1995): 649. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40151578.

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Raiwani, Mayank. "The Indian Women Writers and their Contribution for Women's Empowerment." International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature 10, no. 3 (2022): 25–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.1003003.

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Alapati, Purnachandra Rao, Venkata Raghu Ram Mantri, Kalpana Devi G, and Subba Rao V. V. "Submission to Subversion: An Analytical Study of Meena Kandasamy's ‘When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife’." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 12, no. 11 (November 3, 2022): 2397–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1211.21.

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Meena Kandasamy tries to create an identity among the galaxy of Indian writers in English as a poet, novelist and translator. She deals with caste annihilation, feminism and linguistic identity. Meena Kandasamy's novel, 'When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife', deals with the suppression of women in the name of patriarchal society in educated families. She explains the story of a highly educated Indian woman from an affluent family who marries a respected college professor. He seems to be a man who is a social rights activist outside the home, but he abuses his wife at home. Kandasamy depicts a dreadful picture explaining her husband's strategies to keep her under his control. In this context, she delineates the emotions a woman undergoes while adjusting herself to the situation in the family. The writer attempts to develop the status of a woman by discussing more the turmoil she comes across in every part of her life. She wants to disclose to the world that a woman is a human being. She is wise enough to remain uncrushed and unperturbed despite challenges and hostilities. The novel vividly depicts the power game between men and women in Indian families and other societies.

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Bo, Ting. "An Eco-feminist Reading of Love Medicine." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 7, no. 3 (May 1, 2016): 505. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.0703.10.

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Louise Erdrich is one of the most prolific, important and successful contemporary native American writers. Love Medicine is her representative work. And it represents the lives of Chippewa Indians in reservation. This paper aims to analyze traditional Indian women’s relationship with nature from the perspective of eco-feminism. Both the Indian women and the living environment in reservation are persecuted by the patriarchy and they are deprived of voice. In men’s eyes, women and the nature are just something inferior and attached to them. However, the Indian women don’t yield. They unite together and make the best use of their close relationship with nature, rebuilding the harmony between men and women, man and nature, thus gaining more freedom and power and elevating their social status.

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Meyer, Neele. "Challenging Gender and Genre: Women in Contemporary Indian Crime Fiction in English." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 66, no. 1 (March 28, 2018): 105–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2018-0010.

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Abstract This paper looks at three Indian crime fiction series by women writers who employ different types of female detectives in contemporary India. The series will be discussed in the context of India’s economic growth and the emergence of a new middle class, which has an impact on India’s complex publishing market. I argue that the authors offer new identification figures while depicting a wide spectrum of female experiences within India’s contemporary urban middle class. In accordance with the characteristics of popular fiction, crime fiction offers the possibility to assume new roles within the familiar framework of a specific genre. Writers also partly modify the genre as a form of social criticism and use strategies such as the avoidance of closure. I conclude that the genre is of particular suitability for women in modern India as a testing-ground for new roles and a space that helps to depict and accommodate recent transformations that connect to processes of globalization.

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Dr. Rajendra Kumar Khare. "A River Sutra: A Dialogic and Meta-Narrative Work." Creative Launcher 5, no. 3 (August 30, 2020): 239–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2020.5.3.31.

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A River Sutra (The holiest river Mother Narmada), a great novel of Geeta Mehta was published in 1993 which received the greatest attention of all Mehta’s works. The story is told and set around Narmada in central India Though Geeta Mehta, as a postcolonial writer perhaps, known more for her essays than novels, is also a documentary filmmaker and journalist. She is one of the well-known contributors in Indian English Literature, which has a long tradition of women writers such as earlier novelists Kamla Markandaya, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, etc. All these activities share a focus on India, the country of birth – its history, politics and cultures. The same concerns inform her novel: A River Sutra, a modern revisitation of prevalent traditions of Indian aesthetic and philosophical thought.

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Semwal, Dr Sakshi. "Dislocation, Displacement and Immigrant experience in the Short Stories of Shauna Singh Baldwin." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 7, no. 1 (January 9, 2019): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v7i1.6272.

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The Indian Diaspora is a wonderful place to write from, and I am lucky to be a part of it-Kiran Desai Indian Women writers like Kiran Desai, BhartiMukherjeee, Chitra Banerjee, Jumpa Lahiri all are dealing with the issues of Diasporic Consciousness, dislocation, displacement and immigrant experiences in their writings. Shauna Singh Baldwin, a Canadian-American writer of Indian origin is one of the most significant writers of Indian diaspora writing experiences of Sikh community during partition of Indian and its aftermath. In molding the personality of Shauna Singh Baldwin, the concept of nation, home and belongingness to the place of origin finds an important role. She has adopted and assimilated the elements of both home and host cultures and that is clearly revealed through her writings. As she says: “I wrote because I needed to make sense of my world by describing it. Eventually the stories weren't about me and my experience, but about situations, problems, feelings, metaphors and images that just refuse to go away.”

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Chakraborty, Sanchayita Paul, and Dhritiman Chakraborty. "Bengali Women’s Writings in the Colonial Period: Critique of Nation, Narration, and Patriarchy." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 66, no. 1 (March 28, 2018): 19–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2018-0004.

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Abstract Critical engagements like the first autobiography written by a Bengali woman, Rasasundari Devi, and the non-fictions by Kailashbasini Devi, Krishnabhabini Das, and other women writers in the second half of the nineteenth century contested the imagined idealization of the Hindu domesticity and conjugality as spaces of loveableness and spiritual commitment. They criticized coercion in child-marriages and the forceful injunctions of the Hindu scriptures on both married and widowed women. Such rhetoric of quasi empowerment needs to be disaggregated to perpetuate issues of ‘double colonization,’ ‘dual-hold’ in feminism in India. The question is whether there can be any grounds of women’s agency in the Indian tradition. Eurocentric critiques are ill-equipped to politicize all modalities of a culture of social exclusion in Hindu imaginaries. Henceforth, as questions of equality, emancipation, and empowerment are fiercely debated in the public domain in contemporary India, we need to argue how immanent dissenting woman subjectivity can originate to counteract multiple patriarchies formed in Indian immediacies.

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Begum, Dr Syed Hajira. "Psychoanalytical Study of Women Characters as New Women in Shashi Deshpande’s A Matter of Time." Scholars International Journal of Linguistics and Literature 5, no. 9 (September 20, 2022): 289–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.36348/sijll.2022.v05i09.007.

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The concept of ‘New Woman’, a feminist ideal, emerged in the late 19th Century is one of the most explored themes in men and women writing. The phrase “New Woman” has been defined differently in different contexts, by men and women writers. Men writers tend to depict ‘new woman’ as the one who goes against the traditional norms and ethics to fulfill her desires following western culture and never minds her family and values, on the other hand women writers present her as progressive and conscious of her rights to contribute greatly for general welfare, playing a supportive role in the society and family. This is the significant shift that women writers focus in their writings through their realistic representation of new womanhood traumatised by socio-cultural constructs. The impetus for this study is drawn from the centrality of psychological trauma and internal anguish faced by the three generations of women characters - Kalyani, Sumi and Aru - in Shashi Deshpande’s novel, A Matter of Time, set in coterminous patriarchal Indian society. Facing the repression in the male dominated, tradition bound society, they resist the wrongs within the culturally determined space and gain their identity. The study concludes that the essence of ‘New Womanhood’ does not ascribe autonomy and individuation of woman through radicalism, rebellion or opposition of action; but expression of agency through self-actualization, as Deshpande’s repressed characters show in A Matter of Time. The research methods applied in the study shall be textual and discourse analysis along with psychoanalytic feminism.

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K., Anukala. "Deplorable Condition of Women and Patriarchal Domination in Bapsi Sidhwa’s The Pakistani Bride." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 5 (May 28, 2020): 134. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i5.10595.

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Parsi writers have contributed a lot to Indian English Literature. The Indian Parsi novelists express their feelings in the form of art. The novelists reflect the psychological dilemma of the minority community and its identity crisis through their works. Being a Parsi writer, Bapsi Sidhwa sees a kind of mental migration when she hybrids from her native land, and pours her feelings and thoughts in to her novels. She is known for her exploration of women’s inner psyche who aspire to live in modernity, inept to break traditional quality intrinsic in them. Most of her writings contain a pinch of migration and male dominance taste when one chews them. The expatriate writers face multi-cultural situation which merges with their personal anguish due to prejudice. They project the cultural confusion and confrontation of a multi-racial society. The quest for identity, aspiration for belongingness and love for native land is found as a part of non-erasable conscious in all expatriate writers. This paper reveals the socio-cultural background and the authoritative patriarchal Pakistani society in the novel The Pakistani Bride The novel portrays how the institution of marriage and patriarchy deplores and represses an orphaned girl’s self-identity. It also pinpoints the problems of a little girl Zaitoon as an alien in an alien land or culture. It enforces deportation as a pathway to sculpt for belongingness of her ‘self’. At the end, Zaitoon succeeds by rejecting the alien culture and tradition.

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Sharma, Sunil. "From 'Ā'esha to Nur Jahān: The Shaping of a Classical Persian Poetic Canon of Women." Journal of Persianate Studies 2, no. 2 (2009): 148–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187470909x12535030823698.

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AbstractThe eighteenth century witnessed an interest in Persian women poets and attempts were made by writers of tazkeras to create a female canon of poets. The cultural shift in the Iranian-Indian interface at this time had a direct effect on the writing of Persian literary history that, on the one hand, resulted in the desire to maintain a universal vision regarding the Persianate literary past, exemplified by such writers as Vāleh Dāghestāni in Riāz al-sho' arā', and on the other hand, witnessed the increasingly popular move towards a more local and parochial version of the achievements of poets, as seen in Āzar Bēgdeli's Ātashkada and other writers of biographical dictionaries. The tri-furcation of the literary tradition (Iran, Turan [Transoxiana], India) complicated the way the memory of women poets would be accommodated and tazkera writers were often unencumbered by issues of nationalism and linguistic purity on this subject. However, ultimately the project of canonization of classical Persian women poets was a failure by becoming all inclusive.

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Rahayu, Mundi. "The New Image of Indian Girl in Sherman Alexie’s The Search Engine." Journal of Language and Literature 22, no. 2 (September 26, 2022): 422–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.24071/joll.v22i2.4323.

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The current paper examines the Native American people's identity, especially the main female character's cultural identity in the short story entitled The Search Engine. Sherman Alexie, the author of the story, is a Native American writer who harnesses the Indian identity as one of the main topics. The identity presented in the main character, Corliss, shows the challenges of the stereotypes of Native American girls. For that reason, the paper aims at exploring the new Indian woman’s cultural identity represented in the main character, Corliss, in the short story The Search Engine. The study applies feminist literary criticism that enables the writers to deeply explore the issue of woman's identity among the American native people. The main character, Corliss, shows the new female image identity, in which she can challenge traditional stereotypes of Native American women. Corliss is represented as a highly literate woman, with a lot of reading on English literary works, and has concern on her Indian-ness, which is often incommensurable to her big family’s views. The main character shows the new female image of an Indian girl evidenced in her excellent literacy and attitude toward Indian and White people. She has new consciousness in seeing the Indian men and women and their relation to White people.

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Alexander, Meena. "Outcaste Power: Ritual Displacement and Virile Maternity in Indian Women Writers." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 24, no. 1 (March 1989): 12–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002198948902400104.

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Bhaumik, Mahuya, and Jaydeep Sarangi. "Growing up Dalit in Bengal: Conversation with Manohar Mouli Biswas." CLEaR 4, no. 1 (April 25, 2017): 37–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/clear-2017-0005.

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Abstract This is an interview of Manohar Mouli Biswas, Bangla Dalit activist and writer, where he expresses his views about the identity of Dalit people and the historiography of caste in India. He further speaks about the uniqueness of Bangla Dalit literature, its similarities with Dalit writings in other Indian regional languages and the position of Dalit women writers. He is candid enough to speak about certain autobiographical elements that provided him with the impetus to be a Dalit writer. He further speaks about Dalit drama and its performances which is a marker of its acceptance amongst the viewers. He emphasises on the role of translation of Dalit literature to generate awareness among the larger reading public towards Dalit literature.

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Dr. M. Sandra Carmel Sophia. "From Silent Suffering to Strong Self Identity: A Study of Anees Jung’s Breaking the Silence." Creative Launcher 6, no. 1 (April 30, 2021): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2021.6.1.01.

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Anees Jung is one of the widely read post–independence Indian English women writers who write consciously of the issues that concern the educated middle-class women in Indian society. She attempts to closely analyze man-woman relationship within the family and the contemporary social set-up. She focuses on the captivating problems and the suffocating environs of her female characters who struggle hard in this malicious and male-dominated world to discover their true self identity. Jung does not advocate separation from the partner but a diplomatic assertion of one’s identity from silent suffering.

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DAS, SHASWATI. "The Image of Bharatiya Nari as Projected by Indian Television Soap-Operas." Dev Sanskriti Interdisciplinary International Journal 7 (January 31, 2016): 72–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.36018/dsiij.v7i0.78.

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Television soaps and serials in private television channels have swept the Indian market in the last few decades. These soap operas have been upholding the socio-cultural patterns of the country through their contents. In the construction of Indian cultural landscape Indian women and their roles in society are the most vulnerable sites. The linkage of national identity and tradition with Indian women’s roles in society places them in a problematic position, given the patriarchal nature of Indian society. Soap operas on Indian television mostly depict women as homely and tradition-bound. Though there are portrayals of educated, professional women but they are also shown to find solace in the family. This paper tries to trace the image of the Indian Woman that has been endorsed by the Indian soap operas since its beginning and in doing so it tries to explore the implications of certain myths and ideologies that drive the story writers and the producers to de-recognize the changes in the contemporary society and to fall back on projecting stereotypical images; thus giving preference to social identity while ignoring individual identity of a woman.

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Dr. Mohosin Mandal. "Feminist Movements through the Ages in India: An Empowering Voyage from Prehistoric Age to the Period of Nationalism." Creative Launcher 5, no. 5 (December 30, 2020): 169–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2020.5.5.22.

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The paper makes an effort to trace the status of women from the prehistoric period to the contemporary period to explore how the status of women changed in Indian society over the ages and patriarchy evolved to assume a complex structure. Indian women experienced a severe form of subordination as religious tradition and caste hierarchy shaped social practices. It not only unearths the history but also makes textual analysis of the prominent feminist texts and theories to show how women writers penned down their experiences and resisted the ideology and structure of patriarchal society. The period of the colonial period has been dealt with extra emphasis as in that phase history witnessed the rise of women’s movement and nationalism, and these two movements somehow expressed contradictory core values. In order to comprehend the struggle of women to liberate themselves from the bondage of patriarchy, the pieces of literary works written by female writers are indispensable. It is often blamed that in the Indian feminist movement there is a theoretical paucity. The attempt has been initiated to present the principal ideas of Indian feminist scholars and connect the missing links.

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Mukherjee, Sayan. "Dark Portrayal of Gender: A Post-colonial Feminist Reflection of Bapsi Sidhwa’s The Pakistani Bride and The Ice-candy Man." History Research Journal 5, no. 5 (September 26, 2019): 81–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.26643/hrj.v5i5.7919.

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The portrayals of women by fiction writers of Indian sub-continent can be seen in the context of postcolonial feminism. Sidhwa’s novels may be a part of postcolonial fiction, which is fiction produced mostly in the former British colonies. As Bill Ashcroft suggests in The Empire Writes Back, the literatures produced in these areas are mostly a reaction against the negative portrayals of the local culture by the literatures produced in these areas are mostly a reaction against the negative portrayals of the local culture by the colonizers. About the role of postcolonial literature with respect to feminism, Ashcroft writes, “Literature offers one of the most important ways in which these new perceptions are expressed and it is in their writings and through other arts such as paintings sculpture, music, and dance that today realities experienced by the colonized peoples have been most powerfully encoded and so profoundly influential.” Indian sub-continent fiction is the continuation and extension of the fiction produced under the colonial rulers in undivided India. As such it has inherited all the pros and cons of the fiction in India before the end of colonial rule in Indo-Pak. Feminism has been one part of this larger body of literature. Sidhwa has portrayed the lives of Pakistani women in dark shades under the imposing role of religious, social, and economic parameters. These roles presented in The Pakistani Bride and The Ice-Candy Man are partly traditional and partly modern – the realities women face.

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Patelia, Vinodkumar. "SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION IN INDIA THROUGH ENGLISH LITERATURE." VIDYA - A JOURNAL OF GUJARAT UNIVERSITY 1, no. 1 (June 30, 2022): 86–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.47413/vidya.v1i1.111.

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The common forum to unite the whole world under a single language is majorly accelerated by English. Different countries with their diversities in culture, social structure, and literature gave expression to their ideas with a commonly recognized language –English. Indian writing in English has also established its identity worldwide with this globally accepted language itself. The main objective of this article is to analyse the role played by Indian writers and literature in bringing transformation in society. The bold step taken by women writers to express their views questioning patriarchy is discussed. Contemporary challenges faced by Indian society are briefly highlighted.

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Arasteh, Parisa, and Hossein Pirnajmuddin. "The Mimic (Wo)man ‘Writes Back’: Anita Desai’s In Custody." International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences 27 (May 2014): 57–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.27.57.

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This article aims to trace the articulation of resistance in terms of gender and the postcolonial condition in Anita Desai’s In Custody (1984). As one of the most prominent post-Independence Indian writers of her time, Anita Desai has been a strong voice in portraying the Indian domestic sphere. Accordingly, one of the main concerns of Desai’s novels has been the representation of women and their struggles against patriarchal and colonial oppression. Though promising in many aspects, the political Independence of 1947 failed to unburden women from the ideal visions of womanhood promoted both by traditional community and colonialists in India. The present study focuses on the portrayal of women and female instances of resistance and the spaces through which they manage to survive in a male-dominated Post-Independence Indian society. Since the 1980s, Homi K. Bhabha has opened up a wide variety of critical issues fundamental to the understanding of colonial and post-colonial condition. His theorization of the idea of ‘mimicry’ is used in order to explore the socio-cultural interrelations Desai’s novel seeks to reveal.

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Ahuja, Atula, Suparak Techacharoenrungrueang, and Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin. "Metaphors of womanhood in the literary works of contemporary Indian writers." Metaphor Variation in Englishes around the World 4, no. 1 (September 22, 2017): 131–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cogls.4.1.07ahu.

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Abstract This study examines the notion of womanhood in the literary works of contemporary Indian authors by analyzing conceptual metaphors of womanhood. More specifically, the data collected in this study are metaphorical expressions (MEs) from nine fictional works set in India’s three main ethnically and linguistically diverse regions occupied by three linguistic groups, namely, the Indo-Aryan, the Dravidian, and the Tibeto-Burmese. The identification of MEs follows the Metaphor Identification Procedure VU University Amsterdam (MIPVU; Steen et al. 2010a). The analysis focuses on cross-cultural variation in conceptual metaphor, applying Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT; Lakoff & Johnson 1980) and the cognitive dimension of socio-cultural diversity proposed by Kövecses (2008). Through the analysis of conceptual metaphor, the paper provides insights into the current social context regarding the status and roles of women in India.

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Maya P.R, Dr Latha Velavan,. "THE IMAGE OF INDIAN WOMEN AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO LITERATURE." Psychology and Education Journal 58, no. 1 (January 20, 2021): 5418–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.17762/pae.v58i1.2155.

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The paper deals with the ancient Indian women and their contribution to literature during the British period. The role of ordinary women and aristocrat ladies were the same in that period. Both were utilized to fulfill their household duties and to act as a consummate hostess to their men at the table. They were portrayed as a secondary character to men in most of the writings. Women were in general unaware of their fundamental rights due to illiteracy. Cruel rites like Sati and Infanticide were imposed on women by the society and more or less they were just treated as a supporting character to uphold the story. It’s only at the end of the Second World War, the Indian women got a new sight and light about the world. It’s quite interesting to learn how the ancient women lived and experienced the world around them. Women and Literature are interconnected to one another and their writings added new prospects to English Literature. Earlier, only the work of men were greatly appreciated and won recognition from the readers. But then, the effort of women writers came in to light which created a remarkable aspect in their style and matters they conveyed. They always focused on the language patterns of Indian Literature. It is to be noted that because of their varied style in writing women writers have become very popular among the Indian readers

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Wilson, Lucy. "Dialogic Interplay in Coming-of-Age Novels by West Indian Women Writers." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 18, no. 4 (1993): 177–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/chq.0.0943.

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BOEHMER, ELLEKE. "WITHOUT THE WEST: 1990s SOUTHERN AFRICAN AND INDIAN WOMEN WRITERS—A CONVERSATION?" English Studies in Africa 43, no. 2 (January 2000): 81–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00138390008691296.

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Ranaware, Ravindra. "Feministic Analysis of Shauna Singh Baldwin’s selected stories in English Lessons and Other Stories." Feminist Research 4, no. 1 (May 11, 2020): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.21523/gcj2.19010102.

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The present paper aims at exploration of Shauna Singh Baldwin’s specific technique implemented to present women predicament in selected stories from feministic point of view. The feministic point of view has developed out of a movement for equal rights and chances for women society. The present search is based on analytical and interpretative methods. Shauna Singh Baldwin is a writer of short fiction, poetry, novels and essays. Her ‘English Lessons and Other Stories’ explores the predicament of earlier neglected women of Sikh community by putting them in the context of globalization, immigration to West and consumerism at Indian modern society. “Montreal 1962” presents a Sikh wife’s attachment, love, determination, struggles and readiness to do anything for survival in Canada where her husband is threatened to remove his turban and cut his hair short to get the job. “Simran” presents the story of sacrifice of individual desire by a young Sikh girl because of her mother’s fundamentalist attitude. The title of story “English Lessons” presents injustice to an Indian woman who has married to an American, who compels her to become a prostitute and a source of his earnings in the States. The fourth selected story “Jassie” tells us about the timely need of religious tolerance in the file of an Indian immigrant old woman. Being a feminist writer, though Baldwin has never claimed directly to be, she has very skillfully presented the issues of feminism through her own technique of presentation. She has used technique of presenting absence or opposite to highlight it indirectly. Thus, true to her technique, though not explicitly declared, Baldwin is one of the feminist writers who skillfully deals with feminine concerns.

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Arnold, A. James. "The erotics of colonialism in contemporary French West Indian literary culture." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 68, no. 1-2 (January 1, 1994): 5–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002658.

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Argues that creolité, antillanité and Negritude are not only masculine but masculinist as well. They permit only male talents to emerge within these movements and push literature written by women into the background. Concludes that in the French Caribbean there are 2 literary cultures: the one practiced by male creolistes and the other practiced by a disparate group of women writers.

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Mekathoti, Dr Hemanth Kumar, and Dr Narasinga Rao Barnikana. "Marriage is a Mirage." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 11 (November 30, 2020): 35–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i11.10832.

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Indian female writers attempt to depict the problems of women in the modern society dominated by male chauvinism and in rural India in particular, touching the feministic sensibilities. These female writers handle astonishing variety of themes. Among the women modern writers of fiction Kavery Nambisan occupies a unique place for more than one reason.She has begun her literary career by writing numerous children’s books. Female characters in her novels truly feel that love and marriage are not mere accidents but it is a trap and a cage where emotional stress haunts them through lack of care, bondage and love. The character ‘Shari’ of Kavery Nambisan’s second novel Mango–Coloured Fish (2000), is a young girl, who is caught in a complex, entanglement of uncertainties and disillusionments, and she has different notions about the institution of marriage. Nambisan successfully depicted the contemporary younger generation pre and past marriage dilemmas and ordeals effectively and lively. The protagonist Shari wants to trace out her self-identity and freedom in this world and this is clearly presented in the novel Mango –Coloured Fish.

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Mane, Mr Sanjay R. "The Reflection of Empowered Womanhood in Bollywood Movie ‘Parched’." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 7, no. 1 (January 9, 2019): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v7i1.6271.

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In the era of post-colonialism, margins have started knocking back the centre and Indian mainstream cinema is no exception to this. From the inception of Indian Cinema, it sidelined marginal elements- especially women- but with the passage of time, it is adopting the ‘Road Not Taken’ yet. All over the world, the issue of Women Empowerment is in discussion. Feminist writers have been upheld this issue and have given way through various platforms. Gayatri Spivak and Meenakshi Thapan, talk about women empowerment in detail in their works.

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A, Yogaraj, and Kavitha M. "A Brief Analysis on the Impact of Minority Parsi Community Issues by Rohinton Mistry’s Novels." IAR Journal of Humanities and Social Science 3, no. 01 (February 28, 2022): 61–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.47310/iarjhss.2022.v03i01.009.

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Literature has always represented society in one form or another because writers are the sensitive souls of the society who are affected by the slightest possible change in their surroundings. This paper deals with Indian literature especially focuses on Indian diasporic writer Rohinton Mistry who represents the realistic picture of the most sustained explorations of post – independence Indian society through his chronicles of individual and community lives. Mistry’s fiction covers many themes, from politics to parsi community life and economic inequality to national ‘events’ such as wars, rigorously examining the impact of historical forces and social events on ‘small’ lives. As his novels depicts the social, cultural and political life in India. Most of his concerns are devoted towards the preservation of the parsi community which is marginalized sections of the society which include the economically and socially downtrodden, old and decrepit, women, etc. His concerns for the socially downtrodden and socially marginalized have found genuine representation in his works. Rohinton Mistry rеflects the reality of India’s post colonial greedy politics of corruption, oppression, exploitation, violence, strong opposition to social and class differences have extended the spectrum of contemporary reality through his novels.

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Sachdeva Mann, Harveen. ""Cracking India": Minority Women Writers and the Contentious Margins of Indian Nationalist Discourse." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 29, no. 2 (June 1994): 71–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002198949402900208.

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Aberbach, Jesse. "‘Here in India’: Nineteenth-Century British Women Navigating their Position in the Empire through Children's Literature." International Research in Children's Literature 11, no. 2 (December 2018): 173–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2018.0273.

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This article considers how the children's books written by two nineteenth-century female writers, Eliza Tabor and Mary Martha Sherwood, when they accompanied their husbands to India, enabled them to navigate this new environment and their position as respectable middle-class women while revealing how India was deemed a place where British childhood was impossible. Just as many women took up botanical study to legitimise their ‘otherwise transgressive presence in imperial spaces’ (McEwan 219), writing for children enabled others to engage with the masculine world of travelling and earning money without compromising their femininity. Addressing their work to children also seems to have helped both writers to deal with the absence of their own children: the Indian climate made it impossibly challenging for most British infants and children. In this way their writing gives expression to what might be termed a crisis of imperial motherhood. Underlying the texts is an anxiety relating to British settlement and an attempt to comprehend and control a place that threatened their maternal roles.

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