Portrayal Of Women In The Selected Novels Of Amitav Ghosh

Abstract

Indian Writing in English which has commended unstinted admiration in both home and abroad is now in its full swing. Amitav Ghosh has undoubtedly earned his position in the canon of Indian English Fiction. The lists of contemporary Indian-English writers remain incomplete without the name of Amitav Ghosh. Indian Fiction Writers depicted Women and their experiences in patriarchal societies with a deep sympathetic understanding. Amitav Ghosh portrays his women sensitively and in fact, they are the leading spirits in his fiction. They are distinct portrayals of cultural construction. He never presents his women as overt radical feminists nor as the stereotypical images of Sita and Savithiri. They are the characters of real life and in his novels, he portrays the women characters in a realistic manner. This paper dealt with the portrayal of women characters in the selected novels of Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide and Sea of Poppies. Through the portrayal of his women characters, he aims to envisage a future where women’s empowerment will lead to emancipator changes in the larger social structures.