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ABSTRACT In the realm of Indian Fiction in English, women novelists have exhibited their mettle amidst the grim situation in which society was patronised by patriarchy. Nineteen nineties witnessed the advent of many woman writers in India who proved to be remarkable in the portrayal of varied facets of pains and pangs of women � both traditional and modern. The group of Indian women novelists starting from Ruth Pawar Jabvala, Nayanatara Sahgal, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Kamala Markandaya, Manju Kapur are individuals who rebelled against the traditional role of women, and breaking the shackles of silent suffering of women. Manju Kapur is one among them who successfully and skilfully captured Indian ethos. She shows her deep insight into human nature and their day-to-day life. She, as a prolific and distinguished novelist, deals with women and their problems and love, sex and marriage in all her novels. She explores the clash between tradition and modernity, identity crisis of women, and their quest for independence, the east-west conflict. All the women characters in Difficult Daughters clearly move around the spirit of marriage in the Indian context. The first set of characters like Lajwanti, Kasturi, Harish�s mother, Kishori Devi, and Hirish�s first wife Ganga are confine to the Indian tradition of weeping brides. The second set of female characters, little radical and different from the first set, consists of Virmati, and her cousin Shakuntala, and her roommate, Swarnalatha. Virmati defies her own family and tradition. Her act of marriage with an already married Professor results in humiliation and misery. Her cousin, Shakuntala is a lashing and dynamic woman activist, politically agile, and conducts conferences for women. The third set of female characters includes Chhotti and Ida. This third of female characters set are categorically considered to be the prime concern of Manju Kapur. The self willed Chotti never marries, but self styled Ida enter the marital bond with a fellow of academic pursuit to settle a few contradiction of her personal life, which later ended with divorce, and childlessness. This research articles, �Conflict and Crisis of Virmati in Difficult Daughters of Manju Kapur� focuses on the conflict and crisis of Virmati in the male dominated Indian society.