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The study of subaltern consciousness and gender issues has become one of the dominating subjects in post-colonial literature. Today we speak about women empowerment and grooming, we are sensitive about their issues, we also demand equal status and opportunities for women in society. In India, we have to struggle for equal status and opportunities for women. Today in the modern world of technological advances women have to suffer and struggle for the issues that generally taken for granted. We have been observing her humiliation, exploitation, oppression, and suffocation. Today itself she has to combat for the right to education, right to health, right to marry to somebody of her choice, right to go out, right to earn, and even right to express her feelings openly. Vijay Tendulkar is a famous writer in the post-independence era. He is basically a Marathi playwright and his many plays have been translated into English and other Indian languages. The distinctive quality of Vijay Tendulkar is his method to depict women characters in his plays. His all plays show the hidden side of women's psyche. He shows that how women are subalterns in society. He opens up women’s mind through women character and tries to give them justice but still, due to some social rules and regulations, women characters have to suffer at the end of their lives. His plays reflect contemporary social, political, religious, and domestic issues related to women. In most of his plays, women are shown as silent sufferers and victims of prearchival society. The present research study aims to study subaltern consciousness in select plays of Vijay Tendulkar.

subaltern consciousness, female psyche, oppression