A Study Of Feminine Consciousness In The Select Novels Of Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice Candy Man

Abstract

This study on Ice-Candy-Man by Bapsi Sidhwa is intended to conduct an extensive study of many forms of gender-related violence during India's division. BapsiSidhwa belongs to a group of female creative writers whose functions traditionally do not represent determined women who want to affirm their independence and autonomy and can take on new tasks and duties perfectly. In Ice-Candy-Man, Sidhwa desires a world free of rules and hierarchy, a civilization founded upon being truly human and built on fairness and equality. This novel Sidhwa depicts a number of women who survived in India during a tumultuous period in 1947, registering themselves as one of the deadliest religious unrests in human history. Sidhwa has authentically reported emotional distress, personal weakness, communal riot barbarism, and violence against women .I will now discuss the effective use of women in the novel as a strategy of combating male aggression and subjugation by women's agency and by unity. She not only observes and analyses men's loss and degradation of attention to women, but the voracity of male sexual impulses and women, because they are reduced to the position of sexual objects. Ice Candy-Man is a story about women's subjugation and exclusion. I will also comment on the treatment of abducted women by patriarchal state to disclose the partitioning social reality in which victims of abuse were outcast by society owing to their changed position as infected sexual beings.