Shades of Women in the Novels of Kamla Markandaya and Kiran Desai: A Crical study

Abstract

This paper is humble attempt to study the feminine identities in the novels of Kamla Markandaya and Kiran Desai. Kamala   Markandaya, and Kiran Desai is an expatriate  novelist, chiefly regarded  the most  gifted Indian English Woman Novelist. They are concerned with the plight, status and attitude of woman in India under the stress of changing social, economical, global, modern, spiritual and political forces. They try to awake the consciousness of  Indian Woman against  the traditional oriented society and communicate the real existence of woman. They are the most outstanding modern novelist who concerns with "Feminism”. In the context of present day, women  are being independent. Markandaya and Kiran Desai have tried their best to raise the condition of woman in India. Keeping an optimistic view, they show their humanism. Kamla Markandaya and Kiran Desai are such a novelists, who try to show different  shades of woman in the context India and  England. Different novels present different figure of women- asPeasant woman, Traditional woman, Lustful woman, Glamorous woman, Westernized woman, English woman, Spiritual woman and Motherly woman. they shows greater  power and insight in portraying different types of women characters. They are a typical representative of the feminine sensibility. In comparison with other novelists, they are the most gifted and the greatest novelist, who show remarkable   skill in portraying different shades of women in their novels.