Of Ownership and Rights of the Subaltern: Decoding Crises in Aranyer Adhikar(1977) and Kantara(2022)

Abstract

One of the most urgent inquiries that postcolonial studies can confront pertains to the concept of ‘ownership.’ Innately, human beings exhibit a proclivity for wielding power, often emulating traits reminiscent of colonizers and usurpers. In the contemporary landscape, consumer capitalism, akin to a modern Goliath, poses a formidable threat to appropriating intellectual creations. Simultaneously, the enduring socio-cultural quandary of dominion over one’s physical and intellectual existence notably persists in contemporary India as well. It is now almost an urgent task for an author and a researcher in the social sciencesto create and locate texts that are invariably challenging the power dynamics fueled by the appropriation and monopolisationof knowledge system and money.

DOI - https://doi.org/10.65525/SVUP.9788199392090.2025.75-81.