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This book analyses the diverse aspects of relationships and the concept of New Woman as depicted in the novels of Manju Kapur. It would benefit the academicians, scholars, researchers and students pursuing work on contemporary Indian Women novelists. Women in Kapur’s novels appear to be standing on the threshold of tradition and modernity, neither too conventional to accept everything nor too modern to discard everything, blindly. They endeavour to create a space for themselves in their respective socio-cultural milieu. In their intense struggle to be recognized as a human being they tend to re-write their definition of a modern woman, neither a goddess, nor a tart, neither a silent, meek and docile entity nor an outright rebel, but a human being with shades of grey. The focus of the present book is to analyse the emergence of New Woman in the selected novels of Manju Kapur. Kapur’s women are most often educated, progressive in their thinking and attitude but imprisoned by the conservative traditions of their families and society. They are not voiceless creatures of the old system but have learnt to give voice to their beliefs and passions. The novels of Manju Kapur which are the major concern of the present study include Difficult Daughters (1998), A Married Woman (2002), Home (2006) and The Immigrant (2008).