Women in Indo-Anglian fiction : tradition and modernity / edited by Naresh K. Jain

Tradition, modernity and change -- Naresh K. Jain Of concerns, of anxities -- Shashi Deshpande The uneasy mix of tradition and modernity: Bhattacharya's Music for Mohini -- T. N. Dhar History, change and modernity: Markandaya's new woman in Nectar in a Sieve -- G. R. Taneja Knocks of modernity in Jhabvala's novels -- Neeta Gupta Looking the world in the face: the changed woman in Anand's Gauri -- T. N. Dhar The politics of gender in Raja Rao's The serpent and the rope -- Sarla Palkar Validating the self: the female hero in R. K. Narayan's The painter of signs -- Usha Bande From modernity to 'Purdah': Geeta's acculturation in Rama Mehta's Inside the haveli -- Kamal Bhasin Arun Joshi's women: an esoteric experience -- Usha Bande Impressive women but the chains are no fictions: women in Rushdie's Shame -- Uma Parameswaran The crisis of contemporary India in Nayantara Sahgal's fiction -- Makarand Paranjape Cultural and political allegory in Rich like us -- Makarand Paranjape Anita's Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay: the feminization of a hero -- Malashri Lal From Purdah to Polo to politics: a study of Gita Mehta's Raj -- Naresh K. Jain Jasmine: a study -- Usha Anand Voicing women's experiences in Tara Lane -- Jaiwanti Dimri