Women`s Images, Men`s Imagination: Female Characters in Bengali Fiction in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century

This work attempts to analyse some of the fictional texts written in Bengali by Bankimchandra Chattopadhyaya, Rabindranath Tagore and Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyaya. It focuses particularly on women seen in relation to other members of the family, in their varied attempts to create space for themselves within their restrictive social paramaters and in their enedeavour to forge an individual identity by resisting the given role models.