Representation of Caste and Gender: A Critical Study of Tendulkar's Kanyadaan

Gender consciousness in Indian English drama is one of the most flaming issues which can be seen in the plays of Indian playwrights. Throughout about six decades of post - colonial narration of Indian English fiction, a wide variety of novelists have emerged focusing awareness on a huge number of divine issues, economic, political, spiritual, and social confronted by three corresponding periods of human experience. As we know that Vijay Dhondopant Tendulkar (1928 - 2008) is a leading and television leading Indian playwright. He is a movie and television writer. Besides these, he is a literary essayist, political journalist, and social commentator too, primarily in Marathi. It cannot be negotiated that his many plays derived inspiration from real - life incidents or social upheavals which provide a clear projection of the harsh realities.