Women Characters in the Works of Sarat Chandra

The paper aims to discuss the women characters in the works of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, one of the major Bengali novelists who pioneered the Bengali novel. Sarat Chandra was interested in social sciences and he was well-conversant with Western literature and philosophy. But the roots of his literature are struck deep into the soil of his country. He owed the primeval images of his characters to Indian literature, philosophy and the Puranas. The paper talks about the kind of realism revealed in his works which determines the novelist's characterizing the characters, particularly women characters, in his novels and short stories.