Class Struggle, Exploitation and Resistance in Chhetri’s Mountains Painted with Turmeric

Abstract

This study critically analyzes Chhetri’s Mountains Painted with Turmeric from the perspective of Marx’s notion of class struggle. Firstly, it introduces exploitation of Dhane’s family and their slight resistance in Mountains Painted with Turmeric. Secondly, it has critically inquired into Marx’s notion of class struggle how Marx sees as dialectical and material processes and other critics view how it leads towards the contradictions because every ruling class emerges with new forms of ruling system. Thirdly, it shows how class struggle operates in text and how the elements of exploitation in Dhane and Jhuma’s life and how Dhane’s resistance against bourgeoisie takes place. Finally, it also analyzes how voices of voiceless unite out of suffering, exploitation and resistance through critical aspects of class struggle have in Chhetri’s Mountains Painted with Turmeric.