• Dr. Ram Krishan
• Ms. Rashmi Verma
• Dr. Yogesh Chander Sood

Mahasweta Devi belongs to the post colonial literary world of India. There are many writers who belong to this era. The aim of the author is to show the powerful indictment of the socio economic system in India. The novel itself is an attack on the vestiges of feudalism of rural India. She has adopted various techniques like the use of black humor to show the position of subalterns. Rudali is a touching tale of the women whose life is fraught with poverty of many kinds. The women suffer whether as a mother, wife, grandmother and friend. The landlords of the upper class wait for the deaths in their families in order to celebrate their funerals in a grand way. The humanity loses here itself. Mahasweta Devi has dealt here with great achievement in showing the fake nature of the society. She has exercised all her potential to connect the surrounding to the mainstream. The short story deals with two low caste women, Sanichari and Bhikhni who has been shown as the crystal clear example of the undefeatable spirit of human that never adopts escapist tendency even in the bad circumstances. The main essence is to show the change that come in the lives of Sanichari and Bhikhni after adopting the profession of wailers for the funeral processions.

Subalterns, Black humor, Marginality and Dehumanization

"An Analysis of Mahasweta Devi’s “Rudali” An Epitome of Class, Caste and Gender", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.142-145, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907E20.pdf

"An Analysis of Mahasweta Devi’s “Rudali” An Epitome of Class, Caste and Gender", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp142-145, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907E20.pdf