Indian English fiction constitutes a significant cultural domain for examining the interrelated questions of gender, identity, and resistance within postcolonial, patriarchal, and caste-structured social formations. This paper analyses selected works by Anita Desai (Fire on the Mountain), Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things), Manju Kapur (Difficult Daughters), and Bama (Karukku) to explore how women negotiate selfhood within multiple and intersecting systems of domination. Drawing upon feminist and postcolonial feminist theoretical perspectives, the study conceptualises gender as a socially produced and historically contingent identity rather than as an essential category. The narratives examined reveal diverse modes of resistance, ranging from interior withdrawal and psychological distancing to overt transgression, education, and narrative self-affirmation. By foregrounding the political significance of intimate and everyday experiences, these texts unsettle normative constructions of womanhood and propose alternative configurations of female agency. The paper argues that Indian English fiction functions not only as a representational medium but also as a transformative discursive space in which marginalised subjectivities articulate dignity, visibility, and resistance.