Amitav Ghosh is unquestionably one of the most serious writers crafting fiction in English today. He has written consistently good novels and non-fictional prose works which have won great acclaim both in India and abroad. The present article is proposed to examine and explore the transformation of discourse of the novel to narrate the story of indenture. In my paper, I will be dealing with women characters in the novel of Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies. This study puts its emphasis on the novel to reveal the problems of the Indian women and to expose different oppressions imposed on them by patriarchal society. I aim to explain the position and conditions of women by focusing on Deeti, the main female character of the novel, and some other minor characters, for example Elokeshi, Paulette, Heeru and Munia to show their unpleasant condition in Indian society. In his novels, the position of upper-class women is not very different than women of lower class. Women in the novel suffer from gender discrimination, class and caste structure. Through the character of Paulette he tries to show development of a child irrespective of discrimination results in respect for all whether it is European or Indian.