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Abstract
Acceptance may be good sometimes, but it doesn't work every time. The real pain is when you feel rejected and this was the situation of women in the paraiyar community who suffer isolation. The critical situation in this novel is that women do not have a voice. They are so habituated to suffering that getting out of it becomes a challenge which they do not wish to undertake. This paper aims to read the power of woman's body which acts as a resistance and the life of women in Paraiyar community. In addition, it focuses on the picture of hardship, culture, identity and growth as portrayed in Bama's Sangati. Though there might be anecdotes of hardships of women in the novel, this paper has taken a positive as well as an optimistic outlook of how a woman can go beyond gendered borders by resisting patriarchal ideologies. This paper brings out how Bama's characters set a role model in the present world. Qualitative methods are adopted in this research paper for a better understanding of the ideology.