The paper endeavours to examine the different shades of women. The purpose of the study is to evaluate women's perfidy and fidelity in the male chauvinistic society. Rama Mehta and Shobha De are the two novelists articulating the different problems of Indian married women. De's characters fight against traditional beliefs. They are not the slaves of the patriarchal society rather they are the symbols of self-assertion and self-fulfilment. Snapshots is the example of women's prime need and their fulfilment of desire. Whereas 'Purdah System' is replicated in Rama Mehta's Inside the Haveli depicts the predicament of women. The novel exhibits the prevention of women to cross the threshold of the haveli. To be obedient and devotee of husband defines 'Stridharma'. If a woman does her duty heartily and willingly it is her pleasure but if she is forced to do, is called victimising a woman. Our Indian women novelists have presented a huge varieties of women who caste aside the orthodoxical norms and strike a balance between the interior and the exterior world.
Research Scholar, Department of English, Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya
