Women Identity in Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters

Dr.V.M Saranya

doi:10.22161/ijels.4414

Abstract

Manju Kapur (born in Amritsar, India) is an Indian novelist. Her first novel, Difficult Daughters, won the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Europe and South Asia. She teaches English at Delhi University under the name Manjul Kapur Dalmia. Difficult Daughters is a charming novel about educating daughters, and facing the consequences when they learn to think for themselves and begin to question the basic values of society. It is the old conflict again between the demands of modernity and tradition, enacted this time in an upright, high-minded, middle-class Punjabi Lalaji family in the 1930s and '40s.

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Women Identity in Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters The drama unfolds with intelligence and absorbing sympathy in Lala Diwan Chand's Arya Samaj family in conservative Amritsar
Difficult Daughters is a charming novel about educating daughters, and facing the consequences when they learn to think for themselves and begin to question the basic values of society
She marries him eventually and comes into his home, alongside his furious first wife. Her family is disgraced; and the Arya Samaj movement for the education of women suffers a real s etback in Amritsar. It is a wonderfully gripping story by Manju Kapur, who was born in Amritsar and teaches at a Delhi college

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Women Identity in Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters The drama unfolds with intelligence and absorbing sympathy in Lala Diwan Chand's Arya Samaj family in conservative Amritsar. Women Identity in Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters Abstract— Manju Kapur (born in Amritsar, India) is an Indian novelist.

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