Feminist Consciousness In Nayantara Sahgal’s Novels

Abstract

Indian society has practiced an extreme form of patriarchy since the beginning of known history, though the relics of matriarchy were found as late as the nineteenth century in certain regions. It is based on male predominance and female subordination. It praises the wife-mother role of women but treats her as no better than the legal, economic and sexual property of her husband. Women have no liberty, identity and recognition of her own and she faces identity crises as a small thing. This is sanctified by socio-legal treatises. It has always been discussed that woman has suffered a lot from the very beginning of the age. She share a enormous position in all age, in every society and today even in every region conditions it may be the field of defence, civil, sports or households. We all are agree on the point that woman has passed a very critical time in past and even today also she is rebellious to keep up her survival in the world. It is said that literature is the reflect of society and it consists all the situation of ancient times. Some literary figures are there who time and again anticipated women in every field of society e.g. struggling, surviving and belligerent. With the passage of time she got direction and stimulation from her hardships of her destiny.