What are the motifs in A Suitable Boy: A Novel by Vikram Seth?

Women's roles in post-partition India is a reoccurring idea. Arranged marriages are not the only cultural customs Seth details in A Suitable Boy. There is an emerging shift in the role of women in the culture. On the one hand, there are the traditionalists like Mrs. Rupa Mehra, Mrs. Mahesh Kapoor, Savita Kapoor, and Mrs. Chatterji who represent the old ways of social custom. Lata represents the middle ground.