Breaking the Silence: A Study of Subaltern Issues in The Selected Plays of Mahesh Dattani

Abstract

This paper focuses on Subaltern issues and Marginalized voices in contemporary Indian Literature. On a different basis, the Subaltern and Marginalized community peoples were discriminated. This concept has replaced old-fashioned ideas and literary writers turned their writings toward the suppressed voices of society. Indian writers re-scripted their narratives to reflect the people’s suffering who are subjugated and neglected by the elite community. This study focuses on renowned writer Mahesh Dattani from Indian Literature and scrutinizes from the perspectives of the Subaltern community. He is one of the well-known writers who served as a powerful medium to stand for the subaltern community through their writings. His plays stand as a medium to convey and challenge the socio-cultural hierarchies that have been submerged in Indian society long before. Finding solutions and instilling awareness among the readers was the main focus of Dattanis’s works. Ultimately, his plays give voice to the voiceless while transforming them to push from the margin towards the center.