SOCIAL-POLITICAL RELATIONS AND INEQUALITIES IN MAHASWETA DEVI'S WORKS

Abstract

Mahasweta Devi’s writings are extremely deep rooted in the context of conflict, which manifests in various forms across her works. Mahasweta Devi’s work ‘Draupadi’ demonstrated the cruelty of patriarchal society while demonstrating against gender-based and societal injustice and violence. Although Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak translated this story into English, we will attempt to comprehend it in both Bengali and English and unquestionably examine the caste- and class-based discrimination, oppression, exploitation, and torture that "Draupadi" or "Dopdi" endured from a social, sexual, and regional perspective. This theoretical study examines how a backward tribal woman dealt with social and gender-based inequity and how it was related to gender discrimination throughout the Mahabharata time In addition to discussing various definitions, this essay assesses and redefines the term "political" as it appears in Mahasweta Devi's Mother of 1084. This paper primarily discusses the Naxalite movement, which started in a small West Bengali village in the 1970s and had an impact on middle-class socioeconomic and political circumstances as well as capitalist society. The current essay also examines how she is a part of a male-dominated culture that views women as objects of sex, ignored, and oppressed beings, and how she rebels against the long-standing, established order and shakes the foundation of that corrupt society.