Challenging social boundaries through “servitude” : an exploration into the lives of the lower castes and classes in Post-Colonial Indian literature

• Main Author: Jayashri Lokarajan
• Other Authors: Bede Tregear Scott
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/50524
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts, Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin have defined the term “subaltern” as people belonging to “those groups in society who are subject to the hegemony of ruling classes” (Ashcroft et al. 215) where they refer to “hegemony” as “domination by con...