The Suppressed Voice: Study of Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother, navigating Nineteenth Century Patriarchy and Religion

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Debarati Maity

Voice of the Silenced: A Study of Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother Navigating Nineteenth Century Patriarchy and Religion

Revisiting women’s lives of nineteenth century Bengal, and listening to the stifled voices and eloquent silences within the writings of ‘dominant literary discourses’, reveal women often choosing the path of negotiation between ‘complicity and critique’ of social structures, in order to ensure their survival in the patriarchal world. The dual nature of nineteenth century reforms in Bengal, balancing tradition and modernity often failed to touch the actual lives of women but created a myth about their ‘strength and power’. The social and religious reform movements too proved to be short sighted and particularly a class-caste affair. A close scrutiny of the available women’s writings and recorded literature unmasks the struggles, the challenges and the emotional turmoil that women suffered in order to embark on the denied grounds of power and agency. This study interrogates the historical gaps, the aberrations, the politics of representation vis-a-vis woman’s own understanding of self and struggles of empowerment in the male-dominated domain of religion in nineteenth century. It also highlights the erasure of real women’s immeasurable loss and distress from nineteenth century nationalist and religious textual and oral representation. This paper tries to comprehend how Sarada Devi though repressed by the twin forces of religion and paternalistic nationalism, made an epoch breaking rise and created a cult of her own by converging the widely disparate and heavily pregnant ideologies of motherhood, femininity, nationalism and spiritualism all into one. It will explore and examine the suppressed and submerged women’s voices within hagiographical literature. It will also try to investigate how Sarada Devi, despite submitting herself to the ideologies of the two powerful men in her life, did carve out a separate existence for herself and others.

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Debarati Maity (July-2024). The Suppressed Voice: Study of Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother, navigating Nineteenth Century Patriarchy and Religion. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 9(7), g463-g469. https://doi.org/10.56975/ijnrd.v9i7.312394

Volume 9 Issue 7, July-2024

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