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This is a list of women writers who were born in India or whose writings are closely associated with that nation. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Pages in category "21st-century Indian women writers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 550 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:21st-century Indian male writers and Category:21st-century Indian women writers The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2C, 7th Edition. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000: 2768 – 2785. Alter, Stephen and Wimal Dissanayake. "A Devoted Son by Anita Desai". The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Short Stories. New Delhi, Middlesex, New York: Penguin Books, 1991: 92–101. Gupta, Indra. India's 50 Most Illustrious Women.
The first book written by an Indian in English was The Travels of Dean Mahomet, a travel narrative by Sake Dean Mahomed, published in England in 1794. IEL, in its early stages had influence from The Western novel. Early Indian writers used English unadulterated by Indian words to convey an experience which was essentially Indian.
Women writers (poets, novelists, screenplay writers, playwrights, journalists etc.) who live or have lived in India, or who are of Indian origin, or both. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Indian writers .
The academic discipline of women's writing is a discrete area of literary studies which is based on the notion that the experience of women, historically, has been shaped by their sex, and so women writers by definition are a group worthy of separate study: "Their texts emerge from and intervene in conditions usually very different from those which produced most writing by men."
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