• PRIYANKA
• Manisha Yadav

It is belief about feminism that all people across the world should be treated equally in social, religious, legal, and economic fields. In the defining features of feminism includes the view that a person’s gender does not define who she or he is or her or his worth. In starting phase, it is a social movement sought to correct the imbalance in the society regarding women with same opportunities and rights as men, in order to justify their actual worth and place in the family as well as in the society. Economic expression, intellectual starvation, domestic subjugation, commercial exploitation, physical harassment and abuse, deficiency of individual freedom and sexual assault continued to affect the lives of women related to various social strata. In this regard feminist writers and critics were forced to re-evaluate and re-access the existing socio-cultural system looking for hints to explain the whole mechanism of patriarchal system. The present analysis involves a basic definition of self or feminism and what it means in the context of India. Particularly it shows the direction in which Indian feminism in English fiction has developed and basically the kind of feminism Manju Kapur, a prominent Indian English writer adopts to examine the major problems of Indian women.

Feminism, patriarchal mechanism, oppression and subjugation, stereotypes, globalization, individualism, self fulfilment.

"THE CONCEPT OF ‘SELF’ IN MANJU KAPUR’S ‘DIFFICULT DAUGHTERS’ AND ‘CUSTODY’", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 5, page no.901-903, May-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1805890.pdf

"THE CONCEPT OF ‘SELF’ IN MANJU KAPUR’S ‘DIFFICULT DAUGHTERS’ AND ‘CUSTODY’", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 5, page no. pp901-903, May-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1805890.pdf