Polygamy in Susana's Seven Husbands, The Guide and Train to Pakistan
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Traces of polygamy are noticeable in the Novella of Susana's Seven Husbands by Ruskin Bond, The Guide by RK Narayan, and Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh. Marriage for many times of a male or a female is considered to be polygamy. In a patriarchal society, polygamy is admissible only for the male members of the society. Where females are suppressed, dominated and used for rather sexual satisfaction of masculinity and children production and care for the most expected male. Females are treated as commodities. Some women characters are brought here with the opposite characteristics of femininity. Susana in Susana's Seven Husbands is sketched as a polygamist, Rosie alias Nalini and Velan's step sister in The Guide, and Hukumchand in Train to Pakistan are drawn with the informal habits of marriage for myriad. Social marriage, love marriage, and registry marriage are different types of nuptials, which are the burning questions in the colonial, post-colonial, pre-independence, independence, and post-independence periods of India. With one or two exceptional cases, polygamy in these novels of Indian perspectives is not highlighted.
Author: Parimal Mandal
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Gender equality
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6930773076
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