Rewriting History: A Subaltern Perspective in Parijat’s Under the Sleepless Mountain

Abstract

Present research based on Parijat’s novel Under the Sleepless Mountain, digs up the social realities during Panchayat ruling system from the perspective of subaltern studies. Parijat articulates the subaltern consciousness by presenting different characters from different backgrounds. She presents women, landless, laborers, ethnic as subaltern and police, government agents and factory owners as elite groups. By depicting representation of elite and subaltern peoples’ contrary to each other, Parijat presents the subaltern consciousness to represent their voice. Parijat makes students as representative leaders and shows other subaltern people involving in the movement to catapult the ill-deeds of elites and rulers. This research establishes an argument that Parijat as an intellectual represents the voice of subaltern people through this novel.