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@article{197342,
        author = {Dr. N. Seetha},
        title = {Cultural Subjugation in the two novels Of Shashi Deshpande},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {11},
        pages = {8602-8605},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=197342},
        abstract = {Shashi Deshpande expresses a miserable picture and the crucial situation of the middle-class woman in a male-dominated society in which she should lead her life with simple humility. A male child is regarded to be a chain of command, and the female child is regarded to be inauspicious in the family. Caught in the matrix of age-old custom or tradition, Deshpande’s woman characters cannot break themselves free from the clutches of tradition. Individual revolt and cultural subjugation on the women folk for traditionality has been grown up. They accept the norms of the society without being away from the developing outer world. When they are educated, reality teaches them to shirk the shackles of customs, beliefs, traditions, taboos and culture by strengthening willpower and developing personality. They realize the cultural subjugation is the suppression under which the female’s self loses its nourishment. Education provides them a stronghold to come out of their longings, to break the bindings and to pave a path of self-attainment. But the tradition-bound culture does not allow them to move away from its clutches, and they compromise themselves by framing a bridge along the past, present and future.},
        keywords = {suspension, subjugation, compromise, tolerance, adjustmen},
        month = {April},
        }