Contents: Preface. 1. Psychological exploration of inner mind of Indian women: a feminist perspective. 2. A comparative thematic study of contemporary women writing in India--an overview. 3. Feminism: a core-concept. 4. Woman; as a writer: remapping identities. 5. Dialectics of society and self in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Esmond in India. 6. East-west encounter in Nectar in a Sieve. 7. Rukmani an ideal Indian wife: a reflection on Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a Sieve. 8. Dialectics of society and self in Kamala Markandaya's A Handful of Rice. 9. Nayantara Sahgal's moral vision in the treatment of man-woman relationship in The Day in Shadow. 10. Mental and spiritual conflict of Anita Desai's Female Protagonists. 11. The theme of frustration in Voices in the City. 12. Monisha's plight in Voices in the City. 13. Arundhati Roy's Life, Mind and Art. 14. Arundhati Roy's Paradoxical Celebration of Smallness. 15. Velutha's Tragedy: an example of subaltern voice in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things. 16. Comic Vein in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things. 17. Bharati Mukherjee: problems of non-resident Indians. 18. Bharati Mukherjee's Darkness: a study in connection with immigrants. 19. Existential images of women in Manju Kapur's Difficult Daughters. 20. Virmathi: a tributary of suffering: as reflected through Ida's eyes: in Manju Kapur's novel Difficult Daughters. 21. Taslima Nasrin's French Lover - a flawed journey towards self-discovery. Index.

"New Lights on Indian Women Novelists in English Part III is a modest attempt to evaluate the works of Indian women novelists in English with new perspectives. It contains scholarly research papers on R.P. Jhabvala, Kamala Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal, Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, Manju Kapur, Arundhati Roy, and Taslima Nasrin. The book also features some exhaustive studies of the psychological exploration of inner mind of Indian women, a comparative thematic study of women in India and feminism in the works of Indian women novelists in English.

The book will prove to be a great asset to all those writers, readers, students and teachers who want to be fully acquainted with the Indian women novelists mentioned above." (jacket)