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Contents Foreword Preface 1 Ellipses of history and feminist interventions representation of the partition of India in Attia Hosains Sunlight on a broken columnDipendu Das 2 The discourse of the hysteric a reading of the female question in Chitra Banerjee Divakarunis The Palace of IllusionsPartha Sarathi Gupta 3 The quest for identity in Anita Desais fire on the mountain and VS Naipauls a house for Mr BiswasBidhan Chandra Pal 4 Rukmini to Simran changing facets of women in the post Independent IndiaPrasanta Chakraborty 5 Search for human values in Anita Desai analysis of clear light of dayDilip Sarkar 6 Feminist quest for identity a study of Nayantara Sahgals storm in Chandigarh a day in shadow and rich like usIvy Chaudhury 7 Memory and the ethnic self a study of Bharati Mukherjees Jasmine and desirable daughtersShukla Saha 8 Theme of diaspora and disintegration in Anita Desais bye bye blackbirdRama Chowdhury 9 Plucking Truths from the inheritance of loss a critical analysis and exploration of Kiran Desais narrative designSurajit Sen 10 Arundhatis The God of small Things and Dangles poisoned bread a comparison in Dalit perspectiveSomali Saha 11 Krupabai Sathianadhans Saguna the first autobiographical novel in English by an Indian womanAdwitiya Gope 12 Psycho analytical treatment of women an appraisal of Anita Nairs ladies coupe and Sonia Faleiros The GirlSomen Nandi 13 Issues of pedagogyMunmun Das Biswas 14 Lonliness and withdrawal in Anita Desais fire on the mountainKalyani Bhattacharya 15 The dynamics of feminism in Shashi Deshpandes novelsAparna Das 16 Presentation of women by Arundhati Roy A study of her novel The God of Small ThingsPratap Deb Ratan Sarkar  17 Women in Kamala Markandayas novelsRajesh Debnath 18 Psychoanalytic study of Anita Desais cry the peacockTanmoy Hrishi Das 19 Portrayal of protagonist in Shashi Deshpandes novel moving onBaburam Swami IndexThe present volume is a collection of papers selected from those presented at the UGC sponsored two day National Seminar held at Ramthakur College Agartala on Indian women Novelists in English The nineteen essays included in this anthology cover a wide spectrum of Indian women writers writing in English comprising of Krupabai Sathianadhan Kamala Markandaya Anita Desai Nayantara Sahgal Shashi Deshpande Bharati Mukherjee Kiran Desai Arundhati Roy Jhumpa Lahiri and Anita Nair etc Though the archetypal roles of women as mothers wives daughters and the other woman continue to hasnt the imagination of there writers yet they attempt to view the strength and weakness of the female sex as problems arising out of cultural racial sexual economic ideological political and gender specific confrontationsThis compendium will prove of utmost use to students researchers and teachers of English and comparative literature jacket 200 pp.