1. The Indian Woman in Kamala Markandaya
Indeed, R.K.Narayan's heroine, Rosie, in his novel 'The Guide' is viewed only in relation to the main protagonist, Raju and Raju's mother is confined to a very secondary position. ... A daughter is to become a mother, and her upbringing is to prepare for that. ... She knows she had better learn well, for after the relatively forgiving apprenticeship under her mother, she will have to meet the exceedingly rigid, usually waspish, and all too often brutal, standards of a mother-in-law. ... The story of Savitri is held up as a prime example of the lengths to which a wife should...
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