Contents: 1. Major thematic concerns in the novels of Nayantara Sahgal/Harin Majithia. 2. Kamala Markandaya: A Tribute/S. Ramaswamy. 3. Kamala Markandaya: Her Themes and Art/A.K. Bhatnagar. 4. Language and human psyche in the major novels of Kamala Markandaya/Alka Rani Purwar. 5. Contextualising the nation in Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day/H. Kalpana and S. Sujaritha. 6. Irony in Anita Desai's in custody/Naval Kishor Sharma. 7. Shashi Deshpande's Roots and Shadows: A Critical Study/Krishna Daiya. 8. Chakravyuha: a study of Shashi Deshpande's The Binding Vine/Darshana Trivedi. 9. Concept of freedom in Shashi Deshpande's A Matter of Time/Nidhi Tiwari and Kalpana Sharma. 10. Joys and sorrows of womanhood in The Binding Vine/Basavaraj Naikar. 11. A unique insight into colonial India: a thematic study of Gita Mehta's Raj/M. Uma Rao. 12. Gita Mehta's A River Sutra and the Law of Karma/Milan Swarup Sharma. 13. Transmogrification of an anti-hero into a hero: a psychoanalytic study of Amrita Pritam's The Skeleton/I.A. Pani. 14. Love and politics in Dina Mehta's and Some Take a Lover/Novy Kapadia. 15. Multiplicity of feminine gender identity in The God of Small Things/N.D.R. Chandra. 16. Fiction and political representation in The God of Small Things/K. Ratna Shiela Mani and M.V.S. Kotesware Rao. 17. Socio-political concerns in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things/Swati Chandokar. 18. Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things: a novel of Psycho-analytical treatment/Amar Nath Prasad. 19. A study of Difficult Daughter and A Married Woman/Joya Chakravarty. 20. Literature and popular fiction: does Shobha De demand a second thought?/R.K. Mandalia. 21. The enigma of feminine existentialism is Shobha De's Snapshots/Anita Myles. 22. The concept of new woman in Shobha De's Second Thoughts/Bipin Parmar. 

"Indian Women Novelists in English edited by Jaydipsinh Kisabhai Dodiya is a unique collection of scholarly essays on prominent Indian women novelists writing in English. The novelists discussed in this anthology include Nayantara Sahgal, Kamala Markandaya, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Gita Mehta, Amrita Pritam, Dina Mehta, Arundhati Roy, Manju Kapur and Shobha De among others. The contributors to this book are an August Group of Academicians like S. Ramaswamy, Basavaraj Naikar, N.D.R. Chandra, Novy Kapadia, Harin Majithia, Nidhi Tiwari, K. Ratna Shiela Mani, Joya Chakravarty, Anita Myles, Darshana Trivedi, A.K. Bhatnagar, I.A. Pani, R.K. Mandaliya and H. Kalpana among others. The critical essays have been chosen carefully to enable the readers to grasp the reality that lies behind the fiction of prominent Indian women novelists. The book will be of great help to all those who wish to explore the fictional world of major Indian women novelists writing in English." (jacket)