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Domestic Space as a Site of Caste Conflict in Vijay Tendulkar’s Kanyadaan

Author(s) Dr. JITU SAIKIA, Ms. ANGKRITA CHETIA
Country India
Abstract Abstract
Domestic space in India has long been perceived as a sanctuary of emotional intimacy, familial bonds, and cultural continuity. Vijay Tendulkar’s Kanyadaan (2010), however, disrupts this notion by transforming the home into a volatile arena in which caste hierarchies erupt into conflict. The marriage between Jyoti, an upper-caste Brahmin girl, and Arun Athawale, a Dalit poet, exposes how caste politics infiltrate and structure the most intimate spaces of domesticity. The marital household becomes a crucible of psychological and physical violence, reflecting Arun’s internalized trauma and the failure of upper-caste liberalism embodied by Jyoti’s father, Nath Devlalikar. Through Arun’s cruelty and Jyoti’s gradual subjugation, Tendulkar reveals how domesticity becomes an extension of public caste oppression, collapsing the boundary between personal life and political history. Using frameworks from Michel Foucault’s theory of power, Cathy Caruth’s trauma theory, and Gayatri Spivak’s subaltern studies, this paper demonstrates that the domestic sphere in Kanyadaan is profoundly political. It argues that caste violence, historical resentment, and ideological experimentation converge within the household, making domestic space the central site of caste conflict.
Keywords Keywords: Caste, domesticity, liberalism, subalternity, trauma, violence.
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Published In Volume 7, Issue 6, November-December 2025
Published On 2025-11-27
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i06.61847
Short DOI https://doi.org/hbdr6w
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