Robbers and Libbers

Robbers and Libbers Polanki Rama Moorthy MAY I pursue some of the insights offered by Meenakshi Mukherjee in her "Reality and Realism; Indian Women as Protagonists in Four Nineteenth Century Novels" (Economic and Political Weekly, January 14)? What is most fascinating in Mukherjee's perspicacious analysis is what the novels reveal, in terms of their 'imagery' in contrast to what the novelists seek to put over in terms of their 'plots'