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In the world, women have been suffered for a long time since the human specie evolved from monkeys, and some people are constantly raised the voice against the suppression of women. In India, Nayantara Sahgal, an English Writing, is one of them who wrote many novels that depict the social condition of women in India and advocates how to demolish the enslavement of women. Visite : https://www.phdassistance.com/blog/ Contact Us: UK NO: +44-1143520021 India No: +91-8754446690 Email: [email protected]TRANSCRIPT
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Representation of Feminism in the Novels of Nayantara Sahgal
Dr. Nancy Agens, Head,
Technical Operations, Phdassistance
I. INTRODUCTION
In the world, women have been suffered
for a long time since the human specie
evolved from monkeys, and some people
are constantly raised the voice against the
suppression of women. In India, Nayantara
Sahgal, an English Writing, is one of them
who wrote many novels that depict the
social condition of women in India and
advocates how to demolish the
enslavement of women.
II. FAMILY AND BACKGROUND OF
NAYANTARA SAHGAL
Nayantara Sahgal was born on 10th
May
1927 in Allahabad, India to orthodox
Hindu family. Her mother Vijaya Lakshmi
Pandit was first Ambassador to UN, and
her uncle was Jawaharlal Nehru, and her
cousin was Indira Gandhi. Even though
she born in orthodox Hindu family, she
raised the voice against oppression of
women in Indian society.
III. REPRESENTATION OF FEMINISM
IN HER NOVELS
Nayantara Sahgal has written eight novels,
two collections of memories, and some
non-fictional works. She is one of the few
authors who has written about feminism in
her novels. She has written about female
child murder, female child marriage, and
purdha (disengagement). Nayantara
Sahgal, in her novels, depicts the actual
status of women in Indian, and she
stressed that women should raise to break
the barriers that were set by our
forefathers. In her novels, she has
portrayed women as a strong personality.
She created “Rose” and “Smitri”, the
female characters which had the strong
will power and ability to live
independently without male companion.
Amanjeet (2018) said Sahal has dived deep
into the female mind, that is why she could
depict female mind clearly. Sahgal, in her
novels, stresses the equality of men and
women, and she opposed the customs that
worship husband as God. Prasanth and
Ambika (2018) said: “Nayantara wants to
bring out the rule that man women (sic)
relationship with perfect equality.”
IV. CONCLUSION
Nayantara Sahgal is one of the few writers
who work for women empowerment. Even
though she born in orthodox Hindu family;
she fights for women equality. She
dedicates her life to women empowerment,
because of his works she won Sinclair
Fiction Prize and the Sahitya Akademi
Awards, but one thing she forgets that
without demolishing all religions, women
empowerment cannot be possible. Most
religions in the world treat women as
second-class citizens and properties to
male.
REFERENCES
[1] Amanjeet, K., (2018). “Feminist perspective and
approach in the novel of Nayantara Sahgal: a review”.
Journal of Advances and Scholarly Reviews in the allied
edition. 15(6): doi: 10.29070/JASRAE
[2] Prasanth, K. and Ambika, G., (2018). “Portrayal of
feminism in Nayantara Sahgal's the day in the shadow.”
Research Journal of English Language and Literature:
http://www.rjelal.com