REPRESENTATION OF INDIAN MIDDLE CLASS WOMEN IN MANJU KAPUR’S NOVELS

India writing in English has now very important existence in the field of fiction. Many women writers have tried to contribute in the field of novels. The earlier novels were about the social and political issucs of the society. The male novelists mostly produced the women characters and thcir roles. It was only the refelections of the opinions and experiences of male. But this semario has
changed after some time. The novelistas desire to expose not only the society but they expressed the psychology of people. The purpose of this paper is to dtate the issues related to the middle class or upper middle class women. This study is based on the widely read novels of a famous Indian English novelist manju kapur, entitled ‘Diffcult Daughters’ and married woman the woman’s quedtions today’ aer therefore no longer an issue to the position of woman within the family or their rights for total dircction of change that our dociety is taking cconomic political political, docial and intellcctual pepccption.In this context the role of woman is discussed in the novels of manju kapur have to get married and be submissive to their husbands was given a second look when we read her novels. Her firet novel ‘Difficult Daughters’ (1998) has won the common wealth prize and was a number one best
seller in Indian. It is about the historical backdrop of partrtition. Her second novel ‘Married Woman’ (2002) is a work of envestigative on the most political issues of the demolition of babri masjid and woman’s obsession with love. Manju kapur’s protagonists struggal betwwwn tradition and modernity, family and society.In this way, manju kapur in these two novels presents woman who try to esatablish their own identity.