Indian Women Novelist in English edited by jaydipsingh Kisabhai Dodiya is a unique collection of scholarly essays on prominent Indian Women novelist writing in English. The novelists discussed in this anthology include Nayanatra sahgal, Kamala markandaya, Anita desai, Shashi deshpande, Gita Mehta, Amrita Pritam, Dina Mehta, Arundhati Roy, manju Kapur and Shobha De among others. The contributors to this book are an august group of academicians like S. Ramaswamy, Basavaraj Naikar, N.D.R. Channdra, Novy Kapadia, Harin majithia, Nidhi Tiowari, K. Ratna Shiela mani, Joya Chakravarty, Anita Mycles, darshana Trivedi, A.K. Bhatnagar, I.A. Pani, R.K. Mandaliya and H. Kalpana among others. The critical essays have been chosen carefully to enable the readers to grasp the reality that lies behind the fiction of prominent Indian women novelists. The book will be of great help to all those who wish to explore the fictional world of major Indian women novelists writing in English.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jaydipsinh Dodiya
Jaydipsinh Kisabhai Dodiya teaches at Smt. Surekhaben Hasmukhbhai Gardi Institute of English and Comparative Literary Studies, Saurashtra University, Rajkot. He also taught English for eight years at Shardagram College in Mangrol. He has presented research papers at several national and international seminars held in India and abroad. He has edited a number of books including The Fiction of Rohinton Mistry, The Plays of Girish Karnad, The Fiction of Shobha De, Contemporary Indian Writing in English, Critical Perspectives on the Ramayana and The Novels of Rohinton Mistry. Indian English Fiction is the area of his specialization. He has visited Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Thailand for academic pursuits. He is an ex-Member of Syndicate, Academic Council and Board of University Teaching of Saurashtra University, Rojkot. He has been the Member of Senate as well as the President of Saurashtra University Teachers' Association (SUTA) for the last two terms. For his doctorate degree he worked under supervision of Prof. Avadhesh Kumar Singh on the Parsi novelists in English with special reference to Firdaus Kanga, Rohinton Mistry, Farrukh Dhondy and Bapsi Sidhwa. He is a research guide and now ten scholars are working with him for their Ph.D. dissertation.
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