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Mythological Allegory and Colonial Subtext in Sakunir Protixudh

Author(s) Dr. Neetu saharia
Country India
Abstract This paper examines Sakunir Protixudh (শকুনিৰপ্ৰতিশোধ), a pre-Independence Assamese mythological play, as a work of allegorical expression shaped by the political and cultural constraints of colonial India. In a historical context where overt nationalist discourse was restricted by censorship and colonial surveillance, Assamese dramatists frequently employed mythological narratives as indirect yet effective vehicles for political reflection. This study argues that Sakunir Protixudh transforms the Mahabharata episode into a layered allegory that encodes ethical critique, ideological conflict and resistance consciousness beneath its mythic surface.
Using allegory theory and a New Historicist approach, the paper undertakes a close textual analysis of character construction, dialogic conflict and dramatic structure. It demonstrates how the figure of Shakuni is reimagined not merely as a mythic antagonist but as a symbolic representation of manipulation, moral corruption and destructive power, resonant with the experience of colonial domination. The play’s emphasis on intrigue, internal betrayal, ethical collapse and cyclical violence reflects the anxieties of a society negotiating subjugation, complicity and resistance under imperial rule.
The analysis further reveals how ideas of injustice, dissent and moral crisis are articulated through symbolic language, choric commentary and tragic confrontation without explicit reference to contemporary politics. By situating the play within its late colonial context, the study highlights mythological allegory as a strategic aesthetic mode that enabled political critique while maintaining textual safety.
The paper contends that SakunirProtixudh exemplifies how pre-Independence Assamese drama functioned as a literature of indirect resistance, sustaining nationalist consciousness and ethical inquiry through mythic re-inscription and dramatic symbolism.
Keywords Mythological allegory; Assamese drama; colonial subtext; nationalism; pre-Independence literature
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Published In Volume 7, Issue 3, May-June 2026
Published On 2026-06-06
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