5, January 2026

Gender, Patriarchy and Marginalisation of Women in The Maharaja’s Household: A Daughter’s Memories of Her Father by Binodini

VOLUME-12; ISSUE-1; JAN-2026

Author(s): Haobam Sushma Devi

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Assistant Professor, Department of English, Ng.Mani College, Imphal, Manipur

DOIs:10.2015/IJIRMF/202601002     |     Paper ID: IJIRMF202601002


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Patriarchal designs deeply rooted in gendered biases are an inherent social construction that keeps women at the periphery of the social institutions and political involvements. This distinction correlates with their preconceived assigned gender-specific roles and expectations. This paper examines Binodini’s The Maharaja’s Household: A Daughter’s Memories of Her Father (2015) within the light of this idea. The politics of gender supported by patriarchy becomes an ambience for the people within the Meitei society, relegating women to the periphery, ignoring their existence and importance. This paper uses Butler’s gender performativity and Beauvior’s feminist concepts to find out how these socio-cultural aspects treat the binary genders and render women as subservient to their male counterparts. This work analyses and concludes the impermanence of gender specified roles that restrict women who are always measured by the patriarchy.

Gender, Patriarchy, Marginalisation, Binodini

Haobam Sushma Devi (2026); Gender, Patriarchy, and the Marginalisation of Women in The Maharaja’s Household: A Daughter’s Memories of Her Father by Binodini,  International Journal for Innovative Research in Multidisciplinary Field, ISSN(O): 2455-0620, Vol-12, Issue-1, Pp.6-10.          Available on –   https://www.ijirmf.com/

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