A Feminist Study of Gurdial Singh’s A Handful of Sand and Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on A Broken Column

This book presents an in-depth analysis of Gurdial Singh’s novel, A Handful of Sand and Attia Hosain’s novel Sunlight on a Broken Column from a feminist perspective. It is divided into four parts. The first part throws light on the concept of feminism and it also explains the authors of the proposed novels in detail.  The Second part analyses A Handful of Sand from a feminist perspective.  Gurdial Singh has portrayed a vivid picture of Soni, an orthodox Punjabi girl who suffers due to her nature of dependence and her husband’s unrealistic dreams.  The third part of this book deals with Sunlight on a Broken Column from a feminist point of view. Attia Hosain beautifully portrays women from Muslim aristocratic families and working-class women and their predicaments. The last chapter is the concluding one that compares the sufferings and challenges of female characters in the novels mentioned above.