Author(s): Behjat Azhar

Abstract: The research highlights how women are portrayed and objectified in the novel Twilight in Delhi by Ahmed Ali. Women are victimized and suppressed by the men throughout the novel in various ways. This research is carried out by the help of theme of feminism and covers almost all the aspects of the feminist theory. The women are represented as subaltern and under constant influence of patriarchal society. This image of women in the novel is the reflection of whole Indian society, not only of a family or particular group. This article is a minute representation of women before the Partition of the Sub-continent.

Keywords: Victimization, women, Twilight in Delhi, feminism, partition.

Article Info: Received: 19 Apr 2020; Received in revised form: 19 Jan 2021; Accepted: 25 Jan 2022; Available online: 07 Feb 2022

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.71.20