Women in Indo-Anglian Fiction: Tradition and Modernity

A study of women characters in Indo-Anglican fiction spanning a period that begins with the early novels of Narayan and comes up to Shama Futehally's Tara Lane (1993). The 17 essays in this volume focus on key texts and are written by specialists eminent in their own fields. The writers studied are R.K. Narayan, Raja Rao, Bhabani Bhattacharya, Kamala Markandaya, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Rama Metha, Arun Joshi, Salman Rushdie, Nayantara Sahgal, Anita Desai, Gita Mehta, Bharati Mukherjee and Shama Futehally. A 19 page introduction by the editor attempts to present a synoptic view of woman as seen in the ancient Indian tradition and suggests new parameters for this study.