Diversity of Maternal Image in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Despite the rise of scholarly interest in the maternal theory and observation, motherhood studies is a relatively new concern in India which has started over the last decade. Usually, the concept of motherhood has the societal obsession with biological motherhood that is associated with dominant social mores around “sacrosanct” marriage. Scholars of motherhood studies differentiate among ‘mother’, ‘mothering’, and ‘motherhood’ and while doing so, they have included ‘non-biological mother’ in it which has received less concern and to some extent no critical consideration.
