Victims of Social Discrimination in 'The God of Small Things'

Abstract

History is the reason of all sufferings, agony and havoc in The God of Small Things. Velutha and Ammu are the victims of age-long disgusting customs and discrimination in the social history of India. Indian Society has seen disgraceful tradition and evils of caste-system and gender-discrimination from the distant past to the recent times. Velutha and Ammu fall prey to the cruel evils and rigid practices in Indian Society.