Women’s Resistance in Mahasweta Devi’s The Glory of Sri Sri Ganesh

Abstract

This research paper portrays patriarchal hegemony in Indian society and the voice against it through the bonding of women. Mahasweta Devi has selected Barha, a real place in India, to tell a life-like story of Lachhima, Putli, Rukmani, Pallavi and others in order to show how ideology of patriarchy treat women and how females’ bonding and their collective effort of resistance play important roles to question traditions which promote patriarchy and its oppression. Moreover, through this fictional text, the researcher brings women’s issue at the center of writing, discussion and debate in the theoretical frame of feminism. To carry out this task, the researcher brings theoretical insights related to feminism of GayatriChakravortySpivak’sCan the Subaltern Speak?,Ketu H. Katrak’sPolitics of the Female Bodyand other too. By applying these tools, this research paper tries to find out how the unification and collective voice of women including Lachhima’s provides the possible ways to challenge and change the domination of men. Hence, this paper attempts to extend the horizon of alternatives of maintaining gender equality and freedom in the society to make it a better place to live in.