SHIFTING PATTERNS OF WOMEN IN PATRIARCHY A STUDY OF THE SELECTED NOVEL OF MANJU KAPUR

The dissertation is about the evolution in the portrayal of women in Indian English Novels written by women novelists. The thesis aims to show how the women characters portrayed in the novels the past three decades reflect the changes that are taking place in Indian society. There is a lot of differences in the way women portrayedtheir desires, their trauma as presented in the earlier novels are different from their desires and trauma as presented in the later novels. It tries to show the gradual change in the outlook of the character as well as the change in the social outlook through the novels of Manju Kapur