• Devika. S
• Dr. MG Priya

The paper focuses on the ancient Indian epic The Mahabharata _highly reflexive of the Indian Socio Cultural Convention. It has been a definitive cultural narrative in the building of masculine, feminine and alternate gender norms. It's core follows pandavas from their birth, childhood and polyandrous marriage to Draupadi through their penetrating breach with their cousins, through the eighteen day kurukshetra war and it's after effects to their deaths and even to their life after death. Although numerous versions of the Mahabharata have been penned by different authors, many of the versions seem to focus only on male champions. Such categories marked prejudice against the female sex. Renowned writer Pratibha Ray through her novel. Yajnaseni narrates the Mahabharata through the eyes of Draupadi, thus shattering this prejudice, This paper aims at analysing this novel in the light of female subversion and the Androcentric approach to the story

Cultural Convention, The Mahabharata, Gender norms, Female Androcentrism

"The Politics Of Subversion _An Androcentric Reading Of Yajnaseni ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 7, page no.a91-a96, July-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2107014.pdf

"The Politics Of Subversion _An Androcentric Reading Of Yajnaseni ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 7, page no. ppa91-a96, July-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2107014.pdf