Frames of Marginalisation in Mahasweta Devi’s Outcast: Four Stories

Abstract

This article Focuses the sham and fraudulence of the democratic set-up in our country the fates of marginalized women undergoing untold miseries within and without their own com- munities. Based on Mahasweta Devi’s Outcast: Four Stories is a treatise on the pathetic doom of four marginalized women characters Dhouli, Shanichari, Josmina and Chinta. I will this article argues that it is Mahasweta Devi’s intention in these stories to excavate and exhibit the gendered causes lying underneath the socio-political and economic exploitation of three women belonging to a backward minority. The writer reveals the virtual slave trade that festers under the facade of the democratic society of India, and clearly indicates the plight of these women who usually have no one to turn to, nothing to look forward to, and have only a few to lend them a voice woman who are regarded as sub-human and treated as commodities both without and within their own communities.