The present volume is a collection of papers selected from those presented at the UGC sponsored two day National Seminar held at Ramthakur College, Agartala on Indian women Novelists in English.

The nineteen essays included in this anthology cover a wide spectrum of Indian women writers writing in English comprising of Krupabai Sathianadhan Kamala Markandaya Anita Desai, Nayantara Sahgal Shashi Deshpande Bharati Mukherjee Kiran Desai Arundhati Roy Jhumpa Lahiri and Anita Nair etc. Though the archetypal roles of women as mothers wives daughters and the other woman continue to hasnt the imagination of there writers yet they attempt to view the strength and weakness of the female sex as problems arising out of cultural racial sexual economic ideological political and gender specific confrontations.

This compendium will prove of utmost use to students researchers and teachers of English and comparative literature.