Women Identity in the Select Novels of Kamala Markandaya

In literature woman has been the focus in large number of works down the centuries. We found social, political and economic change woman serves as a symbol and befits in each study. Kamala Markandaya‟s novels directly attend to the awakening of woman‟s consciousness and her confrontation with a tradition-oriented society. She also reveals women‟s sufferings because of the inherent imbalance in the social order. The novelist‟s depiction of women has shown a change of women from the traditional to the emancipated and liberated, expressing freedom of choice and action. In this paper we will discuss about her two novels one is her first novel, „Nectar in a sieve‟ (1954) and the other is her second novel, „Some Inner Fury‟ (1955).