International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research

E-ISSN: 2582-2160   •   Impact Factor: 9.24

A Widely Indexed Open Access Peer Reviewed Multidisciplinary Bi-monthly Scholarly International Journal

Call for Paper Volume 6 Issue 4 July-August 2024 Submit your research before last 3 days of August to publish your research paper in the issue of July-August.
Submit Research Paper Join as a Reviewer

Plagiarism is checked by the leading plagiarism checker TurnItIn

Call for Paper

Volume 6 Issue 4
July-August 2024

Submit your research paper

Indexing Partners
Academia Advanced Sciences Index Bielefeld Academic Search Engine CiteSeer DRJI Google Scholar Independent Search Engine & Directory Network ISI (International Scientific Indexing) Issuu Mendeley Research Networks
RefSeek ResearcherId - Thomson Reuters ResearchGate Scirus Scribd Semantic Scholar UTeM - Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka Wiki for Call for Papers WorldCat Zenodo

Looking at Marritocracy from an Other Window: A Reading of Mahesh Dattani's Play Seven Steps around the Fire

Author(s) Dr. Nilanjana Sen
Country India
Abstract Marriage has remained a powerful tool by which society maintained and validated a lifestyle based on peaceful and conscientious cohabitation of partners and permanent sexual partnership from time immemorial, but the problem arises when the tough cultural policing of sexuality and sexual practice under the garb of so-called liberalism in modern India valorizes only the hetero-sexual intra-religious marriage (based on reproductibility, preferably son) relegating to the margin or expelling other kind of sexual union. The institution of marriage, thus, in a hetero-patriarchal society, had acted as the foundation stone of the family. The play “Seven Steps Around the Fire” authored by Mahesh Dattani is a fair case study of how the social intolerance works in oppression and extermination of any outsiders to the matrix of monolith of marriage. In course of “uncovering some of the hidden India” (Jeremy Mortimer, “A note”, 4) Mahesh Dattani explores an area outside the ambit of social relation, a periphery in which hijras are pushed into by the highly gendered and sexist society that fails to define them in terms of social relation. However, as Kira Hall observes, “Marginalized both socially and spatially, the hijras have created an elaborate network that spans all of India, establishing a divergent social space that both parallels and opposes organizations of gender in the dichotomous system that excludes them” (Hall, 429).
Keywords Marriage/Marritocracy, Hijra/Third Gender, Nonreproductibility, Gender Outcast, Heteropatriarchy, State Violence, Subterfuge, Sisterhood
Field Sociology > Linguistic / Literature
Published In Volume 4, Issue 6, November-December 2022
Published On 2022-11-10
Cite This Looking at Marritocracy from an Other Window: A Reading of Mahesh Dattani's Play Seven Steps around the Fire - Dr. Nilanjana Sen - IJFMR Volume 4, Issue 6, November-December 2022. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2022.v04i06.976
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2022.v04i06.976
Short DOI https://doi.org/grb6cd
View / Download PDF File

Share this


E-ISSN 2582-2160
CrossRef

CrossRef DOI is assigned to each research paper published in our journal.

IJFMR DOI prefix is
10.36948/ijfmr

Downloads
Research Paper Format Copyright Permission Form and Undertaking Form Cover Page Vol 6 Isu 3 Cover Page Vol 6 Isu 2 Cover Page Vol 6 Isu 1

All research papers published on this website are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, and all rights belong to their respective authors/researchers.

CC-BY-SA Open Access

About IJFMR
Fees & Payment
Current Issue
Publication Archive 		Submit Research Paper
Track Submission Status
Publication Guidelines
Publication Ethics
Peer Review & Plagiarism 		Join as a Reviewer
Editors & Reviewers
Reviewer Referral Program
Get Reviewer Membership Certi. 		Website/Journal Policies
Usage Policy
Content Policies
Privacy Policy
Contact Us +91-9898-5948-55 editor@ijfmr.com