Analysis Of Spivak's Can The Subaltern Speak

INTRODUCTION
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Although Spivak acknowledges the "epistemic violence" done upon Indian subalterns, she suggests that any attempt from the outside to ameliorate their condition by granting them collective speech invariably will encounter the following problems: a logo centric assumption of cultural solidarity among a heterogeneous people, and a dependence upon western intellectuals to "speak for" the subaltern condition rather than allowing them to speak for

Although, Dukhi could not complain about the exploitation he was facing at the hands of the Pandiji but after his death his corpse became the mouth piece of all the sub alterns. His body had the power to disturb a higher caste being and provoke him to move it away. The presence of Dukhi's corpse is a symbol that even the body of a lower caste person is equally significant as that of a Pandit or any higher caste person. The body of the Brahmin is similar and equal to the body of a Dalit. Initially, the Pandit was unaffected by Dukhi's death but, the Gond wanted to make his death symbolic and so he wanted that Pandit to feel something upon the death of this sub-altern. The end of the story intensifies Dukhi's plight and at last the Pandit had to do something for this poor tanner by dragging his corpse away which was in complete contrast to his daily activities. Also, the Gond emerged out as the voice of the sub alterns and was successful in breaking the norms of the