Vol. 3, Issue 6, Part N (2017)

Abstract
An autobiographical novel is a kind of novel that uses auto fiction techniques and proficiency, or the unification of autobiographical and fictive elements. It is the amalgam of both autobiography and fiction. Real life names and places are altered and events are reorganised to make them more dramatic but the story has close similarity to that of the author’s life. Both Bapsi Sidhwa and Namita Gokhale have portrayed some memorable women characters and events that relate to their life and times. There are some similarities as well as some dissimilarities as far as the women characters of these women novelists are concerned.