Feminisim in the Novels of R. K. Narayan: A Critical Study

This paper investigates the position of women in the pre and post independent India and shows how R. K. Narayan delineates female characters written during the period in his novels. R. K. Narayan was born and brought up in a zoologist Hindu family. He saw closely the pathetic plight of women confined in the house .They were deprived of everything and treated as puppets. In his novels, he wanted to develop a different set of laws through which the deprived women of the society would be emancipated from the male servitude .This paper shows how his women break the traditionally accepted customs about women status in India and rebuild a new status to establish them as human being in their own light.