Resistance Against Colonial Domination in Kamala Markandaya's The Coffer Dams

Abstract

Kamala Markandaya's The Coffer Dams presents the sense of colonial identity as the strongest tool for resistance against colonialism. The sense of anti-colonial resistance enabled the Indian tribal people to act for the liberation from imperial oppression. She shows that the backdrops of colonial legacies motivate Indian tribal people to liberate their nation from the colonial grip and create the independent identity and national autonomy. Markandaya's passion and love for her homeland is clearly presented through her regard to the national culture, custom, and religion and value system. She tries to unite all the Indians to build free India. Markandaya tries to prove resistance as the strong means that all the people of nation should join the hands together against the colonization. By presenting different characters' rebellious psyche against imperialism, the novelist reveals their longing for freedom of nation. This rebellious psyche works as the strong weapon to wipe out the colonial rule and its inheritance among the natives.