Abstract
Arundhati Roy, the winner of Booker prize for her novel The God of Small Things, follows Mulk Raj Anand’s tradition of attacking degenerating aspects of Indian social systems. Roy’s compassion for the underdog and her indignation of the exploitation of the weak by the forces of caste system, capitalism and industrialization invest her work with tremendous power. Untouchability has been the greatest hampering process which has always been a blood sucking leech to the Indian society. Untouchability, a great impediment to the marginalized or the dalit sections of the society, has shown how much deprivations these societies undergo. The God of Small Things is an attempt to bring into focus the deep roots of casteism, which has stifled healthy growth of considerable sections of Indian society. Though the ban of untouchability preached in the past, even today it strictly practices in the rural India. This article aims at exploring the condition of dalits and the deep rooted untouchability presented in the novel The God of Small Things