• Ms. A. Nithya

Manjukapur is one of the most influential women novelists of current Indian literary area. Her novels seek to explore the condition of women in modern India. She portrays the marginalization of women in all aspects of life and projects the jeapardy caused by the all pervasive patriarchal system in our Indian society. Manjukapur’s first novel the Difficult Daughters was set in the turbulence of historical partition in 1947. The story happens in Amritsar and Lahore; and deals with the issues like women education and women emancipation. This paper investigates Manjukapur’s portrayal of the psyche of Indian women in a joint family, in a patriarchy dominated condition. She exposes the multidimensional experiences of female characters and their various crisis. The female characters Kasturi, Virmati and Ida; live in a conventional patriarchal world and were taught to believe that marriage is the ultimate destiny of a woman. Shakuntala, Swarnalatha and Ida are the female characters Kapur presents as the modern woman with an ardent zeal to establish the self identity and resist the all the imposed gender stereotypes.

Marginalization patriarchy oppression self identity

"TREATMENT OF WOMEN IN MANJUKAPUR’S DIFFICULT DAUGHTERS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.113-117, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBA06031.pdf

"TREATMENT OF WOMEN IN MANJUKAPUR’S DIFFICULT DAUGHTERS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp113-117, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBA06031.pdf