Published Paper Details:

Women Writing in English in India present the dilemma which modern women are facing nowadays. The women have to suffer due to their self-will and individual ideas. In the novels of Jhabvala, there are girls who have to suffer due to the blind imitation of western culture. Jhabvala presents their modernity with great irony. Through the description of the Indian woman, which Jhabvala gives in her different novels. The paper focuses on Jhabvala's portrayal of women, especially those women who desire eagerly for modernity. Her women characters try to be modern and refuse to comply with their surrounding because of their fascination for modernity. Here Jhabvala presents a vast picture of modern Indian society through her female characters. Jhabvala wants to highlight vivid facets of women's nature. In Esmond in India, Jhabvala portrays different types of women with their nature and attitudes such as - Gulab, Uma, Shakuntala, Madhuri, Lakshmi, Indira and Betty. All these women are different in their nature, manners and attitudes to life. Jhabvala highlights how Westerners come to India with the bright hope of finding a spiritual peace and inward solace and satisfaction but finally, they leave it all disappointed.