Tribal women: the game of hunt in the story "the hunt" by mahaswetha devi

Mahasweta Devi, a prominent academic, has hailed her outrageous, powerful narratives of the exploitation and suffering of women as excellent sources for feminist discourse. Her inventive language use has widened the traditional boundaries of Bengali literary expression. She is possibly the most prominent socially committed writer because she was at the crossroads of critical modern concerns such as politics, gender, class, and caste. Devi tells the story of the tribal women's exploitation, or the game of hunting, which is the main focus of this story. At the same time, Devi does not simply project the suppression of these women and also how these women revolt or protest in a very significant manner against all the injustices and inequalities. In "Imaginary Maps", by Devi, is not restricted to some particular state in India but can always expand the geographical domain to Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, and West Bengal and even move beyond to India or anywhere. The Subaltern, or the oppressed people, lives on one side of India. The central character, Mary Oraon, in the story "The Hunt" has mixed parentage: an Australian man and a tribal woman. India’s indigenous tribes are located in the lowest strata of the strictly demarcated caste society. According to Mahaswetha Devi, The struggles of decolonization are fundamentally cultural and there exists the tension between myths and rituals of the indigenous tribes and the pervasive modernity of national bureaucracy and the multinational capitalism that penetrates even the most remote regions of the Indian subcontinent. (126)