Feminized Continuum of Women in Indian English Fiction

The role of females in literature is typically very wide in spectrum. Ladies are writing in India after thousand BC. Women are portrayed as secondary characters as per the literary heritage is concerned. Among the different writers of Indian English fiction, Anuradha Roy, Amitav Ghosh and Usha KR have gained an unique room for her specific interest towards the plight of social injustice and females. Her sensitive understanding and portrayal of intrinsic human nature can make her writings relevant to current interests. This chapter is going to discuss the representation of females within the contemporary literature written in English by Indian female writer. It's an effort to evaluate the dynamics and placement of the contemporary Indian females portrayed in the novels of theirs like the folded earth, an atlas of impossible longing, monkey male & sea of poppies. Females characters portrayed in this particular novel depict the changing role of females in Indian postcolonial literature. The battle of theirs to conquer the submissive stereotyped characteristic qualities required by the patriarchy is produced naturally within the novel.