Caste Consciousness in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things

Abstract

In this study, an attempt will be made to scrutinize Arundhati Roy’s novel The God of Small Things to show how she is conscious of the caste system that has come up in the contemporary India. The study is based on the hypothesis that Arundhati Roy’s novels effectively depict the caste consciousness of modern India. The researcher has attempted to analyse the caste consciousness in Arundhati Roy’s novel The God of Small Things in terms of its overlapping effect on social system. Researcher’s concern remains to find out how the different structures have their bearing on the characters and their social responses.  The present study attempts to focus on Arundhati Roy’s novel “The God of Small Things in terms of its thematic and political concerns. In addition, the study investigates the relationship between the novel and the caste system. The purpose of the present study is to find out whether the caste system and human behaviour can be explained in terms of the primary membership of human beings to various communities which are defined by caste, status, income, profession, gender and education.