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@article{194930,
        author = {Dr. Sravanthi Maddela},
        title = {From Nationalist Feminism to Intersectional Resistance: Ideology and Gender in Modern Indian Literature},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {10},
        pages = {6137-6143},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=194930},
        abstract = {This research article undertakes a critical examination of ideology and feminism across four canonical Indian writers Sarojini Naidu, Arundhati Roy, Munshi Premchand, and Yashpal whose works span the colonial, nationalist, and postcolonial periods of Indian literary history. Drawing upon feminist theory, postcolonial criticism, and Marxist ideological analysis, the study explores how each writer constructs, challenges, or subverts dominant patriarchal, caste-based, and class-based ideological frameworks. Through close readings of representative texts, the article argues that while Naidu and Roy engage feminism from markedly different historical and aesthetic positions, Premchand and Yashpal, despite writing in the progressive Hindi literary tradition, demonstrate complex and sometimes contradictory engagements with gender. The comparative approach reveals that Indian feminist consciousness in literature is not monolithic but is shaped by intersecting forces of nationalism, class, caste, colonialism, and social reform. The study contributes to the growing body of scholarship that situates Indian women's writing and women cantered narratives within broader ideological contestations.},
        keywords = {feminism, ideology, Sarojini Naidu, Arundhati Roy, Premchand, Yashpal, postcolonialism, Indian literature, gender, nationalism},
        month = {March},
        }