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- CERTIFICATE
- DECLARATION
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- I. INTRODUCTION
- 1.1 Fiction
- 1.2 lndian Fiction in English
- 1.3 Feminine Voices
- 1.4 Anita Desai
- 1.5 Significance
- 1.6 Justification
- 1.7 State - of - the-Art Review
- 1.8 Objectives of the Study
- 1.9 Theoretical Foundations
- 1.10 Methodology
- 1.11 Hvpothesis
- 1.12 Scope of the Study
- II. INDIAN WOMAN DOWN THE AGES
- 2.1 The Vedic woman
- 2.2 The Age of Dharma Sastras
- 2.3 The Buddhist Interlude
- 2.4 A Time of Stagnation
- 2.5 The Position of Women during Bhakti Movement
- 2.6 Medieval India
- III. VARIED VANDALISATIONS OF WOMANHOOD
- 3.1 In the chalkpit
- 3.2 The European Connection
- 3.3 Out of her Depths
- IV. CONTEMPORARY INDIAN WOMEN
- 4.1 The Reawakening
- 4.2 In the shadows
- 4.3 Radical Feminism
- 4.4 The Liberal Feminism
- V. DESAIS FOCUS -- ON SOCIETAL BONDS AND BONDAGE
- 5.1 Social Stereotyping
- 5.2 The Many Victims
- 5.3 The Price they Pay
- 5.4 Deprived of..
- VI. EXPLORING THE FEMININE PSYCHE
- 6.1 Desais Locale: As An Extension of The Self
- 6.2 Conflicts Galore
- 6.3 Losing Battles
- 6.4 Battles Fought and Unfought
- VII. TRANSEFFECTING IDENTITY
- 7.1 Fighting for Space
- 7.2 Transeffecting Identity
- VIII. CONCLUSION
- 8.1 Wounded Dreams
- 8.2 Female Scripts for Power
- BIBLIOGRAPHY