Writing gender, writing nation: women's fiction in post-independence India: by Bharti Arora, New York, Routledge, 2019, x+232 pp., £38.99 (paperback), ISBN 97 8 036 728 052 9.

Bharati Arora's book I Writing Gender, Writing Nation i formulates a conscientious thesis that problematises the very principles and values on the basis of which the new nation-state of India was found. I Writing Gender, Writing Nation i foregrounds the special role played by laws in the newly constituted state of India by setting the tone of resurrected gendered relations and the roles of the marginalised in this new arrangement. Writing gender, writing nation: women's fiction in post-independence India: by Bharti Arora, New York, Routledge, 2019, x+232 pp., £38.99 (paperback), ISBN 97 8 036 728 052 9. [Extracted from the article]