Volume VI Special Issue I January 2026

Name of Author : Reema Khandelwal

Title of the paper : Protest, Resistance and Social Justice in Indira Goswamis Pages Stained with Blood

Abstract: This paper aims to critically evaluate Pages Stained with Blood as protest literature referring to the anti-Sikh pogroms in 1984. Such riots have been recorded as historical episodes but in protest literature, the literary articulations of redress and protest remain comparatively underexplored. This paper investigates how Goswamis narrative strategies, rhetorical techniques and ethical witnessing challenge the silence of the state and demands for justice. This paper argues that Goswamis Pages not only records traumas and testimonies but becomes a tool for social justice, it resists communal divides by highlighting the significance of social awareness and accountability. Furthermore, through the preservation of memory, it counterattacks forgetting and stresses on the significance of ethical remembrance. In doing so, it contributes to the significance and role of protest literature in diverse historical, political and social spaces where it can not only serve as testimony but a critique, where it can record histories in the midst of risk of being erased.

Keywords : protest, resistance, justice, narrative strategies, ethical remembrance

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Page Number : 274-277