The Wheel of Surya, by Jamila Gavin, examines and presents a variety of different forms of discrimination within the novel. It explores this in various ways by comparing the differences between India and England while many types of discrimination occur, such as racism, sexism and a lot of disrespect towards culture, gender, religion and tradition. Gavin also highlights the fact that in 1900 (when the partition of India took place) Indian culture was not usually accepted in England, which increased the amount of criticism and discrimination against unknown religions. How Gavin uses discrimination effectively in the novel will be shown and discussed in this essay. In the first part of the novel, a lot of anti-gender discrimination is used; at the time women had lower status than men and had to earn respect possibly by having a child. This is shown in Part 1 when Jhoti was pregnant and Govind said that he would return home in time for the delivery. However, when he was informed that the child was a girl, he did not hurry to return and saw his daughter -Marvinder only two months later ...