Jane Austen, the most popular 19th Century woman novelist, though confines herself in her narrow world of English country gentry , but her delineation of both major and minor characters left a mark in our mind. Emma termed as a domestic novel by many like most of her novels deals with issues like love and marriage, courtship, match-making etc. has universal appeal. This paper looks into the similarity between her world portrayed in Emma, set in West and traditionally-bound Indian society.