Open AccessHindus Us, Muslims, and the Rest Others in Roy's the Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Author(s) -
Syed Maqsood Alam,
Zafar Hussain,
Muhammad Ahsan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
global social sciences review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2616-793X
pISSN - 2520-0348
DOI - 10.31703/gssr.2021(vi-i).19
Subject(s) - happiness , hinduism , politics , christian ministry , caste , romance , state (computer science) , identity (music) , sociology , rest (music) , government (linguistics) , gender studies , political science , religious studies , law , psychology , aesthetics , psychoanalysis , philosophy , medicine , linguistics , algorithm , computer science , cardiology
This study explores self and othering in Roy's novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. Roy took twenty years to complete this political romance. The narrator of this political romance talks about the others of Indian society, i.e., religious minorities, political traitors, and low caste groups. These others are always striving to secure a place in a biased Indian society. Their quest for identity has often led them to a blind alley where they have found themselves helpless and oppressed evermore. The situation has become worse under the government of the right-wing Hindu party BJP. This study is an attempt to explore the ways how the weaker part of the society is treated as another and outcast in a so-called secular state. Roy has presented the true face of India. This research tries to comprehend her mind and investigates The Ministry of Utmost Happiness multidimensional and multi-layered tale.