A CRITIQUE ON WOMAN AND SOCIETY IN NAYANTARA SAHGAL’S NOVELS: AN OVERVIEW

Abstract

Nayantara Sahgal a outstanding Indian English women novelist. Her novels portray on the assertion of vibrant female characters, matrimonial strain and household traumas understands the convention and modernity. The distinctive male seclusion that, she encountered there as well as the unpleasant inequality to females in social life that she pragmatic made her voice loud in protest against mistreatment of women in the society. The significant point regarding Sahgal's narrative route is that she does not hesitate to incorporate gender narrative within its influence. Her female character highlights the different positions available to women in Indian society. Sahgal entre fictional quantity revolves around the twin themes on political and the tradition and modernity. She is writes for women concerns, women conflicts in domestic, she fights for womanhood rights. Her aspire to create the good atmosphere for women’s rights so that her fictional novels deal with the main concern of rights of women. Her characters endeavour for liberation. Her novels present the multicoloured depiction of Indian womanhood. Nayantara Sahgal is a practical spirited woman writer in Indian English fiction with a sensible approach and her mutinous intention want Indian women to be free from her shackles.