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@article{183016,
        author = {Ameya Bhatt},
        title = {New Historicism on Dharamvir Bharati},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {2},
        pages = {4101-4105},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=183016},
        abstract = {Dharamvir Bharati’s Andhayug (1954) originally written in Hindi and later translated into many languages. It positions itself on the last day of the great war of Mahabharata. The play heralds the elements of bloodshed, devastation, war, injustice, revenge, self-realization, and the blindness that envelopes them all. The research concentrates on studying Andhayug from Stephen Greenblatt’s approach of New Historicism. It also concentrates on checking the historicity of the text and relevance of the text in the present scenario. It focuses on Pastness of the Present and Presentness of the Past. This paper also portrays the conflict in ideology and failure in filial relationships which led to the great war of Mahabharata and resulted in a new beginning. As Andhayug is a political allegory, hence, this research also concentrates to compare the literal meaning and the referential meaning. The referential meaning has been deconstructed by trying to refer to the characters of the play to the key players of Indian politics of that time in the treaty of partition of India.},
        keywords = {Andhayug; Conflict; Destruction; Historicity; Ideology; Partition},
        month = {July},
        }