Visting the Corridors of Caste System and Tapping the Suffering of the Untouchables in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things

Caste is the most confused knot of all social problems in India. The division of society into so many castes and sub-castes comes in the way of the unity and integrity of the nation. Casteism is a blind group loyality towards one’s own caste or sub-caste which does not care for the interests of other castes and their member. It hinders the spirit of democracy. Ambedkar in his works such as Caste in India and Annihiliation of Caste had dealt exhaustively and pointedly with the evils of caste system. Arundhatti Roy in The God Of Small Things has dealt with the ravages of caste system that have inflicted our society. The superfluous and malice behavior summoned out to the untouchables in India have been an issue of enormous concern. Caste system affects the fibre of society by making people prejudiced. Keeping in view humanity above all, we should be conscious about the dynamics of caste discrimination which should not render us blind.