Study of Tribal Consciousness in Mahaswta Devi's "Chotti Munda and His Arrow", "The Hunt" and "Seed"

<p>Mahasweta Devi is the greatest tribal writer and social activist depicting the sufferings<br>of the tribals. She accounts for the deteriorated conditions of the poor Indian tribals in<br>her several works. His narration of the tribal stories has been tragic and seeks motifs to<br>get rid of this chronic situation. She depicts different stories, in both delicate and violent<br>style through presenting the crisis of the individual struggles. The impact of colonization<br>on the tribals has been a disease that disturbs the tribal movement. Her stories are linked<br>with the specific fate of the tribals to that of marginalized peoples in the world. The<br>upper-class people take all the benefits of the welfare schemes and the poor people have<br>been deprived of such benefits. In this way, tribal people face poverty and can not come<br>out from such adverse conditions. The paper attempts to show their struggles in making<br>them independent and self-explanatory. The consciousness of the tribal people changes<br>the history of the tribal society. Sahitya Academic Award winner, Mahasweta Devi<br>explores distinguished ideas on the autonomy of the tribals through subaltern<br>perspectives. Subaltern history deals with the history from the below rather than the<br>upper class. Mahasweta Devi travels throughout the country, especially she wanders the<br>states, of West Bengal, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh. The possible solution<br>to end tribal afflictions is the collective revolt driving the tribals to liberate themselves<br>and their race. Devi’s “Chotti Munda and his Arrow”, "The Hunt” and “Seed" bear<br>testimony to her observation.</p>