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Synopsis New Lights on Indian Women Novelists in English deals with almost all the chief women novelists in English, their great works, their truthful portrayal of women in a conservative and patriarchal society, their critical comments on gender discrimination and above all, their strong sense of feminism. It contains more than twenty scholarly articles contributed by well known scholars from different parts of India. The authors included in this anthology are Ruth PraWER Jhabvala, Kamal Markandya, Shantha Rama Rau, Nayantara Sehgal, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Shobha De, Mahasweta Devi, Sagarika Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, Nargis Dalal and Bharati Mukherjee. 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 of Indian Women Novelists in English.