Impact Of Communal Clash In Gita Hariharan’s “Fugitive Histories”

Abstract

Gita Hariharan is one of the most popular women writers in India. Her unique style of writing and mastery over the language are highly recognized by all. Being a social activist, she is more concerned with social issues and cultural ideologies. Apart from feministic perspectives, her novels also deal with Socio-political issues like social discrimination and communal problems. ‘Fugitive Histories’ is based on communal riots of Gujarat in 2002. India is a multi-facet country where people are of different religion, and different faiths, following different practices and speak different languages. Despite different beliefs and customs, our people live together. Religion and community play a very pivotal role in getting authority to rule over the people, and in discriminating the people; such as, the novelist describes how do religion and community create discrimination among the people.