Social Prejudice and Caste Politics in Arundhati Roys The God of Small Things

Abstract

Arundhati Roy, a social activist has bequeathed the problem of untouchability pervading the Indian society in her booker winner novel, The God of Small Things. Her novel explores the caste system, gender difference and the police-politician relation that have existence in the country even after virtually six decades of independence. The novel discloses the cavernous gap between the touchables and the untouchables; the exploiters and the exploited, and the powerful and the powerless. It is all about how the human values of the children, youth, women and the untouchable have been impinged upon, and how they have been deceived. Here in this paper, I will discuss the maltreatment convened out to Velutha, one of the characters in Arundhati Roys The God of Small Things and how the idea of social prejudice is explored in the novel?