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We think of psychopaths as killers,alien,outside society. These people lack remorse and empathy and feel emotion only in a shallow manner.In extreme cases, they might not care whether you live or die.Are they really outside of society? Or rather we can say socially constructed? Manipulative,aggressive, exploitative psychopaths and insensitive, self -centered, conceited solipsists are taking over the world.In this project an effort is made to explore the problematic psychopathology and Dalit sensibility of postcolonialism in Vijay Tendulkar's explosive play "Kanyadaan".In this play,he opens his reader's eyes to social problems such as class differences, discriminations, unequal power relations. Frantz Fanon,writing in the 1960s in the context of Algeria and its French colonial occupation, has been an influential figure in postcolonial theory. Fanon deals with the psychopathology of colonialism, as colonial paints the native as evil, pagan, primitive and over a period of time the native begins to accept this prejudiced and racialized view as true. The black man loses his sense of self and identity.In "Kanyadaan" Arun Athawale, a dalit from Mahar caste, considered himself as devil, he lost his trueself and turned into a devil because he can only see himself through the eyes of the elite class and he turned into a psychopath. Vijay Tendulkar in the play "Kanyadaan" draws attention to approaches like issues of gender,of class, of inter-caste marriages.This play reflects Tendulkar's interaction with Dalit panther Movement, Gandhian Hindu Reformism.To judge "Kanyadaan" ,we have to understand these issues and their relation to each other, and also study if some vital issues are missing in the process of interpreting, re-reading and critiquing the play "Kanyadaan".

Psychopathology, Post-colonialism, Inter-caste marriage, Hindu reformism, Dalit Sensibility, Caste discrimination, Psychoanalytic criticism.