• Dr. Sunita Rani Mehra

Kamala Markandaya has occupied a prominent place among Indian English writers as one of the leading woman writers in English. All her ten novels deal with the themes of East-West encounter. The paper analyses feminine awakening in the words of Kalma Markandaya. She can be called a feminist writer on the basis of her feminine perspective. She shows the woman who is struggling to find out her identity in the male dominated world. Kamala Markandaya's novels are primarily a study of time, fact and of feminine consciousness. Her female protagonists are seeking self-fulfilment and through self-expression without losing their basic personality. Rejecting the conventional role of subjugation and self-denial, they raise the flag of awakened woman in their hands to make the male oriented society realize their integral position and importance.

Prominent, Encounter, Feminine, Awakening, perspective, Dominated, Anguish, Self-fulfilment, Recognition Self-expression, Conventional, Consciousness, Protagonist, Subjugation, Self-denial, Integral

"FEMININE AWAKENING IN THE NOVELS OF KAMALA MARKANDAYA ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 6, page no.j266-j270, June-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2306937.pdf

"FEMININE AWAKENING IN THE NOVELS OF KAMALA MARKANDAYA ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 6, page no. ppj266-j270, June-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2306937.pdf