Synopsis New Lights on Indian Women Novelists in English, Vol. IV is a collection of twenty critical papers concerning the chief Indian women novelists in English language. It evaluates the various aspects of the writings of the novelists like Kamala Markandaya, Ruth Parawer Jhabvala, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Gita Hariharan, Mahasweta Devi, Arundhati Roy, Manju Kapur, Shobha De, Bama, Namita Gokhale and Kiran Desai. All the articles included in this volume are very informative, scholarly and comprehensive and they will be very helpful to all those students and research scholars who want to extend their knowledge about the aforesaid women novelists. The book will find a warm reception in the hands of the teachers and research scholars of English literature who want to be more conversant with the critical elucidations and explorations of the works of the aforesaid writers.