Womanhood in the novels of Manju Kapur

Manju Kapur has been highly acclaimed as a renowned novelist writing in English by critics at home and abroad. A bird's-eye view of the five novels in their chronological order will sum up Kapur's creation of her protagonists as traditional, transitional, modern and postmodern women. The book deals with her basic approach to women's life is to liberate them from the oppressive measures of patriarchy. Kapur's perceptions of women's liberation and autonomy are deeply entrenched in Indian women's suitedness within the socio-cultural and economical spaces and paradigms of the country.