• Dr.Sridhar Sharma

The Indian feminist writers had been vividly presenting and are still highlighting this traditional created imbalance. They are doing great job by depicting the conflict of the weaker as has been called from traditions, against the superior, keeping well in mind the cultural and social structure of India. The depiction of modern Indian women in the works of these feminists does not deflect Indian women from her traditional roles and chores but facilitates her easy and efficient performance and thereby vindicates her Indian identity. As discussed earlier, the exigencies of socio-political and cultural structure of a country gives an impetus and momentum to the conscious writers of the age. Indian English novelists were inspired by the freedom movement and Gandhi’s political ideology. The Indian novelists took upon themselves the responsibility of giving artistic articulation of the problems that beset the common people and their small joys and immense sorrows, the crusade against the tyranny of poverty, illiteracy, suffering, disease, superstition, caste and sex. Resulting in a number of novels the protagonist is a farmer, a labourer, a factory worker, a patient or a virtuous women pitted against a zamindar, a landlord, a factory owner, or a ruthless, callous hardhearted man. It may be aptly remarked that Indian English novelists have fairly succeeded in their efforts to portray creatively in a realistic manner the problems of the age. They not only present the various problems: social, cultural, political, and economics of the contemporary society but also offer solutions in terms of fictional art.

Identity, Human rights, Conjugal Bonds, Captivity, Subjugation, Emancipation.

"Feminist Assertion in the Novels of Nayantara Sahgal", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.2, Issue 8, page no.1055-1063, August-2015, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1701199.pdf

"Feminist Assertion in the Novels of Nayantara Sahgal", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.2, Issue 8, page no. pp1055-1063, August-2015, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1701199.pdf