Global Journal of Human Social Science, C: Sociology and Culture, Volume 22 Issue 6

© 2022. Abir Mondal. This research/review article is distributed under the terms of the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). You must give appropriate credit to authors and reference this article if parts of the article are reproduced in any manner. Applicable licensing terms are at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Understanding Scenario of Casteism in Twentieth Century India through Satyajit Ray Film Sadgati By Abir Mondal Visva-Bharati University UnderstandingScenarioofCasteisminTwentiethCenturyIndiathroughSatyajitRayFilmSadgati Global Journal of HUMAN-SOCIAL SCIENCE: C Sociology & Culture Volume 22 Issue 6 Version 1.0 Year 2022 Type: Double Blind Peer Reviewed International Research Journal Publisher: Global Journals Online ISSN: 2249-460x & Print ISSN: 0975-587X Strictly as per the compliance and regulations of: Abstract- This article tries to emphasis the actual scenario of Casteism in twentieth century of India solely on the basis of Satyajit Ray’s film ‘Sadgati’ (1981). Although this article doesn’t focus on film theories and criticism of ‘Sadgati’ as a film but on sociological aspect of castesim in India. ‘Sadgati’ is a Hindi movie but in this article the dialogues of the movie as per requirement is translated by author. The original story was written by Premchand but here we try to focus only on the film made by Ray based on that story. This theoretical study focuses on how was the scenario of Casteism which includes higher caste’s oppression, suppression, marginalization and exploitation towards lower caste with reference to ‘Sadgati’. Simultaneously, we try to analyze the relevance of Ray’s portrayal in the movie with the actual scenario. For that we have taken some secondary sources as evidence of fact. Keywords: casteism, sadgati, satyajit ray, film. GJHSS-C Classification: DDC Code: 843.8 LCC Code: PQ2469.M5, DDC Code: 810.9 LCC Code: PS25