Study of Caste Politics and Women in Vijay Tendulkar’s Kanyadaan

Abstract

Vijay Tendulkar has special sympathy with the female sex and this resulted in so many plays which expresses woman‟s predicament through the deep rooted ideologies and beliefs which are established by our culture and society and which need a rethink in today‟s society. Kanyadaan published in 1983 represents struggle of woman with idealism and long established beliefs that our treatises had made sacred. This is an important play in Tendulkar‟s career which deals with the conflict of Dalit caste and upper caste in which woman is made a scapegoat in man‟s evil purposes.