Voice of Protest against Discrimination in R. K. Narayan's Fictional Women Characters

This research paper seeks to study R.K.Naryan as a writer voicing the discrimination andemancipation of women in the Indian orthodox Hindu society where men hold a superiorposition and women are confined to the home and hearth with all sorts and of taboos andtradition clamped on them. The study shows that Indian women exist among conditions oftenbordering on despair. Yet as the anxious manager of home and culture, she is on a ceaselessquest for a credible meaning to life along with her male counterpart. But we cannot considerNarayan a feminist in terms of western feminism because his attitude is shaped with a strongIndian sensibility that stands to resist the possibility of any foreign cultural aggression in themovement that he launches to being about a change in the status of Indian women. It's truethat Narayan favours the western notion of liberated women, but he also considers anddepicts in his novels, the perils of following western wave of movement for liberation andfreedom of women in India. He shapes this movement of women's freedom in India's owntraditional and religious perspectives by blending both tradition and modernity in thecontemporary context