New Lights on Indian Women Novelists in English is a modest attempt to evaluate some of the major women novelists of Indian writing in English. It contains more than twenty scholarly articles contributed by well-known scholars hailing from different parts of India. The book also contains an unpublished interview with Shashi Deshpande. The authors discussed in this anthology are Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Nayantara Sahgal, Kamala Markandaya, Anita Desai, Nergis Dalal, Shashi Deshpande, Mahasweta Devi, Bharati Mukherjee, Geetha Hariharan, Rama Mehta, Shobha De, Arundhati Roy and Jhumpa Lahiri. "The book will prove to be a great asset to all those teachers, scholars and students who want to be conversant with new trends and approaches to Indian women novelists in English.