An Analytical Study of Women’s Condition in Bengal Through the Lens of Badal Sircar’s Pagla Ghoda

Author(s)	Ayan Bhattacharya, Tridibesh Sen
Country	India
Abstract	This paper analyzes Badal Sircar's Pagla Ghoda (1967) as a critique of enduring patriarchal emotional structures in West Bengal. We argue that society functions with an emotional "legacy code," where rapid external modernization (education, economy) fails to overwrite deep-seated gendered psychological patterns. The play's core conflict—men's guilt, cowardice, and fear of social disapproval leading to women’s tragedy remains disturbingly relevant. Contemporary data confirms the persistence of violence and the middle-class woman's conditional autonomy, proving the social "cremation ground" is still burning with the same old, unaddressed emotion-al patterns six decades later.
Field	Sociology > Philosophy / Psychology / Religion
Published In	Volume 7, Issue 6, November-December 2025
Published On	2025-11-30
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i06.62079
Short DOI	https://doi.org/hbdsnm

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