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This paper aims to study Bharati Mukherjee’s latest novel Miss New India , published in 2011, which portrays the modern India The female protagonist of the novel is a young woman, Anjali Bose, who is in constant search for ways to escape the conservative environment of Gauripur, a small-town in Bihar. The author has depicted the restlessness of a young woman who is in pursuit of happiness. She is not like the other Gauripur girls who would allow others to write her destiny. She had high aspirations in life. Although she is born in a conservative middle class family but she wants a westernized lifestyle. The image of women in fiction has undergone a transformation during the last four decades. Women writers have moved away from traditional portrayals of enduring, self-sacrificing women towards aggressive female characters searching for identity. They are no longer characterized and defined simply in terms of their victim status.