Victimization of women in Twilight in Delhi

Behjat Azhar

doi:10.22161/ijels.71.20

Abstract

Victimization of women in Twilight in Delhi

Highlights

Artistic manifestation of life through the medium of language is called literature
Material feminism is a term used to reflect how women are used as commodity
The statement of Mushtari Bai where she thinks of herself as a caravan-serai that where people visit only when needed to be refreshed from their problems of life, shows her helplessness: “I am like a caravan-serai where people come, rest their tired bodies for a while and depart.”(Ali (1940) p.76)

Summary

INTRODUCTION

Artistic manifestation of life through the medium of language is called literature. On analyzing literature, we can see that by development, trends in literature have been through a sea of changes and there are changes in forms as well as themes. Angaaray is a collection of short stories, a rancorous critique of Muslim values He achieved international fame by his first novel Twilight in Delhi (1940). Ahmed Ali has vividly drawn the picture of old Delhi and its Muslim inhabitants of that era He depicts the themes of disintegration, degeneration, alienation, gender and social conflicts, nostalgia, the downfall of the Mughal emperors, and the effects of colonialism and imperialism on Indian Muslims in Delhi. Set between the moment of change at the end of nineteenth and start of twentieth century, the novel Twilight in Delhi presents a live picture of the decay and loss of an entire civilization and traditional nobility, making the history alive once again. Towards the end of the novel, twilight in the evening refers the destruction of Mir Nihal’s family and overall decline of whole Muslim Mughal Empire. In what ways are women characters victimized by patriarchal oppression and traditional roles in the novel?

LITERATURE REVIEW

DISCUSSION

CONCLUSION