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Man for the field and woman for the hearth,
Man for the sword and for needle she,
Man to command and woman to obey,
All else confusion.
(A .L. Tennyson, The Princess)
This depiction of subordinate status of woman in family and society, rendered by Lord Tennyson in The Princess (1847) might have suited the Victorian Age of compromise but the modern time of woman’s emancipation has pervaded across the world in all spheres of life-social, political, economic, and familial, etc. Further, the women novelists between 1890 and 1960 evinced the fact that a woman is an equal partner of man with her equal rights, and not a man’s subordinate to carry on the load of tradition under his command. In the recent past and in the present, many Indian women and men novelists in English have raised the question of a woman’s place and her identity in Indian patriarchal society. Among them ChetanBhagat is a leading Indian novelist in English, who has drawn great critical attention and acclaim by projecting a realistic and sensitive picture of the modern educated Indian woman who, although financially independent, still faces the problem of adjustment between tradition and modernity.