Chronicles of Violence and Emergence of Revolutionary Movements: Tracing the Trajectory of Radical Trends in Literature

Abstract

“Take a hammer to change the World-
So saying went Bhimrao”- Anna Bhau Sathe
For the establishment of egalitarian values in social and economic life, one has to revisit the history of revolutionary movements and read the revolutionary literatures that encompass the chronicles of violence, social, literary and historical movements. Revolution in the early twentieth century significantly influenced the entire country to undergo a transformation. Ideological and collective resistance will occur when the young intellectuals are influenced by many new ideas and political philosophies such as Marxism. This paper tries to explore the revolutionary trends in India and the impact of those trends in literature written during various timelines. Further it explores the diversities of ideology, influences and the effect of the revolutionary 
movements and how it became a tool of resistance against the hegemonic classes. It is an analytical and explorative study that includes history as its backdrop. It also examines and analyses the various methods of resistance. On the whole the paper tries to analyse the transformative influence of revolutionary movements on society and literature. For my study I have planned to take the novels Ants among Elephants by Sujatha Gidla and Indira Parthasarathy’s The River of Blood etc as a site of revolution.