Social Disintegration and Women Suppression due to Religious Extremism in Nasrin's Lajja
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Abstract
From the time immemorial women are marginalized by the male patriarchal
society and symbolized as 'other' which is incorporated as a fiction in Lajja. Nasrin
situates in the context of religious fanaticism that raised its ugly head in Bangladesh
in the wake of the demolition of Babri Masjid in India in 1992. The novel also
exhibits immense potential to be studied from a feminist perspective. The
representation of the female characters, their treatment at the hands of Muslim and
Hindu male fundamentalists at the level of family, society, religion and the fate
female characters face are heart rending and hedious, patriarchal society has created a
world where women are expected to fit themselves in this frame, where in every
sense they are inferior to men and lose their personal identity. Women remain as mere
object or property to men. The main problem of the study was why females have been
so marginalized in Hindu and Muslim society. The study has concluded that women
in these societies have been treated that way because of religion orthodoxy.