Women Identity in the Select Novels of Manju Kapur

This paper deals with women identity in the novels of Manju Kapur. Manju Kapur is distinguished author of the contemporary age in India who has written five novels. I have taken two novels of her namely ‘Difficult Daughters’ (1998) and ‘A Married Woman’ (2003) in this paper. She presents the real condition of women in the society. She uses the treatment of the language perfectly. In her novels she talks about the reality of society, women identity, generation gap, woman education and all real conditions faced by common man. She gives importance to education without gender differences in her novels. Thus even after Indian Independence of 65 years, the condition of women education and social life have barely changed. Through her novels she exposes the condition of women‟s condition since Independence till the present age.