Beloved Daughters and Liberated Mothers: Duty and Rebellion in Three Indian Novels
Journal: Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University)
Year: 2016

This study investigates how three Indian women novelists—Toru Dutt, Krupabai Satthianadhan, and Kamala Markandaya contributed to the discourse on women’s rights and position in society in the nineteenth century and into the mid-twentieth century. From the mid-nineteenth century on, “woman” became the site of resistance against the British by Indian nationalists. Based on “traditional” ideas of women’s place in the household, as keepers of tradition and values, and as insulated from foreign influ