Image of Woman in Select Fictions of Nayantara

Indian Literature in English has traveled far to accomplish its present magnificence and glory. The anecdotal worries of female writers investigate the universe of females, their sufferings as casualties of male authority; they likewise express social, financial and political changes in Indian culture. Amongst female authors, Nayantara Sahgal has earned a different space for their specific consideration towards mental understanding and existential concerns. The new age of essayists discussed the self-acknowledgment of woman. The high class, taught, sensible women moved toward becoming hero in her novels. Their women were new class of women whose lives were not pervaded by issues of share or neediness. Nayantara Sahgal`s women characters are the casualties of a male-commanded society. In her novels men are not generally heathens or oppressors. She investigates the character of the oppressor and demonstrates a comprehensive way to deal with the issues of women through her novels. An endeavor has been made through this paper about the status of Indian woman in the compositions of Nayantara Sahgal in which they speak to new ethical quality, as indicated by which female isn't to be taken as a negligible toy, a question of desire and passing delight, yet man's equivalent and regarded accomplice. Nayantara Sahgal`s female characters without a doubt uncover their women's activist belief system. This paper looks to analyze picture of female character in A Time To Be Happy (1957), This Time of Morning (1965), The Day in Shadow (1971) and Mistaken Identity (1988)