Impacts Of Modernisation On Environment As Represented In Anuradha Roy’s The Folded Earth

Abstract

Modernisation is one of the major proponents of India as a developing country. The impacts of modernisation among the marginalised people should be taken into consideration in order to integrate them in the process of modernisation as a democratic governance. The impacts include, displacement, loss of socio-culture identity, imbalanced distribution of natural resources and economic benefits, social disintegration and class and caste discrimination. The article analyses the impacts of modernisation on the marginalized people and how it is represented in Anuradha Roy’s The Folded Earth.  The narrative focuses on providing an empathetic depiction of the relations among the characters and environment involved. Thus, it delineates the impacts modernisation for effective reception.