1. The Indian Woman in Kamala Markandaya
The Hindu goddesses still exist as powerful cultural ideals of women in South Asia. ... Even woman in life and literature herself voluntarily surrendered to the ideal of self-sacrifice. ... She fulfills the ideal suffering devotion, which Meera Shirdwadkar calls the Pativrata tradition in Image of Woman in Indo-Anglian Novel. ... Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a Sieve not only portrays the Indian woman in her four traditional roles but also bestows upon her the ideal traits of the Indian woman that of devotion, submission and obedience. ... Man's wants are many and cannot always b...
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