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A STUDY OF INDIVIDUAL’S SEARCH FOR FREEDOM AND SELF-REALIZATION THEME IN THE NOVELS OF NAYANTARA SAHGAL

    1 Author(s):  DR. VIJAY KUMAR CHAWLA

Vol -  7, Issue- 5 ,         Page(s) : 352 - 366  (2016 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH

Abstract

The present study was aimed on an intensive and discerning study of Nayantara Sahgal with exclusive focus on Sahgal’s major concern in her novels i.e. individual’s search for freedom and self –realization. In almost every novel Sahgal is preoccupied with the individual’s search for freedom and self–realization. Her fictional work is a thoroughly integrated system of values focused on the concept of freedom as of fundamental significance to the peace and progress of the human spirit. Nayantara’s Freedom of individual and freedom of India emerged as twin themes in the fictional world of Nayantara Sahgal. She deals with marital and political crisis alongside; crumbling politics and crumbling marriages take the centre of her fictional matrix. Underlying these twin concerns is her preoccupation with the theme of freedom.

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2. R.K.Dhawan, Indian Women Novelists, p.no, 174.
3. Nayantara Sahgal, A Time to be Happy, p.no, 233. 
4. Ibid, p.no, 234.
5. Ibid, p.no, 234.
6. Nayantara Sahgal, A Situation in New Delhi (London: Magazine Editions, 1977) p.no, 25.
7. Shyam M. Asnami, “Form and Technique in Nayantara Sahgal’s novels”, The Literacy Endeavour, January 1980, Volume.1, no, 3, p, no46.
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9. R.K.Dhawan, Indian Women Novelists, Set-II, 4 p.no, 177.
10. Bala Korhandaraman, “Structure in Storm in Chandigarh,” Osmania University Journal, vol, 11(194-75) p.no,27.
11. Nayantara Sahgal, Storm in Chandigarh, p.no, 169.
12. Ibid, p.no, 208.
13. Ibid, p.no, 91.
14. Ibid, p.no, 21.
15. Nayantara Sahgal, “This Time of Fulfillment”, Femina 7-20 May 1976, p.no, 15.
16. Nayantara Sahgal, Storm in Chandigarh, p.no, 104.
17. Ibid, p.no, 243.
18. Albert Camus, “ Personality as creative struggle,” in Robert N.Wilson, The Writer as Social Seer ( The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1979),p.no,127.
19. Jasbir Nain, Nayantara Sahgal(New Delhi: Arnold –Heinemann,1978),p.no,7.
20. Nayantara Sahgal, The Day in Shadow, p.no 199.
21. Ibid, p.no 233-34.
22. Nayantara Sahgal, “Mrs. Gandhi’s Political Style-II”, The Indian Express, June-7, 1977.
23. Nayantara Sahgal, The Day in Shadow, p.no 38.
24. Nayantara Sahgal, The Day in Shadow, p.no 90.
25. Ibid, p.no 64.
26. Nayantara Sahgal, Rich Like Us, p.no, 30.
27. Ibid, p.no 30-31.
28. Ibid, p.no 32.
29. Ibid, p.no 33.
30. Nayantara Sahgal, Rich like Us, p.no, 78.
31. Ibid, p.no, 62.
32. Nayantara Sahgal Plans for Departure, p.no, 62.
33. Jasbir Nain, Nayantara Sahgal (New Delhi: Arnold -Heinemann, 1994), p.no, 146.
34. Neena Arora, Nayantara Sahgal and Doris Lessing, New Delhi, 1971, p, no, 68.
35. Betty Friedan, The Femine Mystique, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1971.
36. Jasbir Nain, Nayantara Sahgal (New Delhi: Arnold -Heinemann, 1994), p.no, 75.
37. Nayantara Sahgal, Lesser Breeds, p.no, 160.
38. Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Lepps, “Passport Please”: Legal, Literary and Critical Fictions of Identity”, in Un-Disciplining Literature: Literature, Law and Culture, eds, Kostas Myrsiades and Linda Myrsiades, New York: Peter Lang, 1999, pp.117-68.

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