Gender and Politics in Nayantara Sahgal

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Partridge India

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491_9781482867176

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This work is a gendered reading of Sahgal as a writer of fiction and looks at events in post-Independence India from a gendered perspective.As a tangent, it has also discussed the reliability of fiction as a source material for history.The debate and dichotomy between fiction and history are an important part of the bookalso. Through its attention to the detail of minor events, Sahgals way of writing was better athighlighting the social aspects than the greater moments of history.It is essentially a picture of India and the many faces of India through not only its women but alsothrough the relationship shared between men and women and the societies in which they lived in.Be it religion or politics, these men and women had something to say. They critiqued it, comparedit, compromised, and negotiated with the changes that were affecting their beliefs from one politicalscenario and ideology to another. Through them we see a country emerge from a country in shacklesto a country fighting its restraints and prejudices and accepted notions and ideologies to make itselffelt in the outside world. It had its fair share of problems inside too, and the many characters createdby Sahgal wade through it, sifting the best in India to emerge with an identity.There are larger forces at work and Sahgals world is a country in transition and her characters probeIndia. There are questions of morality, faith, gods, attitudes, ambitions, hopes, and also despairs.

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