Abstract

Despite the rise of scholarly interest in the maternal theory and observation motherhood studies is a relatively new concern in India which has started over the last decade Usually the concept of motherhood has the societal obsession with biological motherhood that is associated with dominant social mores around sacrosanct marriage Scholars of motherhood studies differentiate among mother mothering and motherhood and while doing so they have included non-biological mother in it which has received less concern and to some extent no critical consideration