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Abstract
Gaslighting is a systematic psychological manipulation of behavior. Manipulative influence is exerted on a targeted individual or group to have desired behavior. This research paper applies the term gaslighting in the social context. The marginalized, especially women are socially gaslighted by the power structured social system. This paper studies Bama’s Sangatiwhich deals with many gaslighted women by narrating interconnected anecdotes. The conceptualized feminine ideology becomes a weapon for the degradation and elimination of women from the center. The impact of gaslighting on the older generation is so powerful that one cannot trace any sign of shattering it. The younger generation, in spite of the awareness of their abuses andpsychological and social influences, cannot overcome gaslighting as they are oppressed by many tactics like placing them in a shameful situation, depriving their rights, denying them their respect. They cannot escape from being victims of gaslighting as they are tied up by family responsibility and their innate tendency for motherhood.