LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 16:1 January 2016
ISSN 1930-2940

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Unarmed Mutiny of Draupadi in Mahashweta Devi’s Draupadi

Shweta Choudhary, M.A., NET



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In this paper, the focus will be on Mahasweta Devi’s piece of art Draupadi and its comparison with its compatriot “Draupadi” of the epic Mahabharat. Mahasweta Devi pinpoints a perceived necessity of sounding a strong protest by creating a defensive resistance against echelon hegemony of upper caste and caste-bound discrimination. She brings to light the pain, suffering & silence forcefully hurled on marginalized, victimized lower class or Dalits. She discusses the experiences that thrive on presumed mainstream-marginal or core-periphery relationships. The main attraction lies in the composure and tolerance of Draupadi who wades through the ordeal of barbaric acts perpetrated on her and sheds no tears, nor sighs, and her hysteric laughter unnerves the tyrants. She, single handedly, unarmed, as a solider of her caste, challenges the entire authority and defeats them by her confidence and shames them into making amends for the shame they hurled on her by stripping her off.

Keywords: Draupadi, Dalits, caste-bound discrimination, marginalized

Mahasweta Devi’s Draupadi

The story here for discussion – Draupadi brings forth the character Draupadi who, being tribal, wrongly pronounces her own name in tribal form, Dopadi. The life of Dopdi is circumscribed and straitjacketed by the norms and principles of a prejudiced society. Dopdi and her husband’s woeful tale starts from the Naxalite movement of the seventies – a movement of poor and illiterate peasants dwelling in the forest, meadows and plateaus fighting just for their living and survival.


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Shweta Chaudhary. M.A. (Eng.), NET
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Haryana
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