ASSERTION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF TRIBALS AND WOMEN IN AMISH TRIPATHI’S 'SHIVA TRILOGY' (Pages 390-400) by Ms. Amrita Paresh Patel in THE ENGLISH RESEARCH EXPRESS / ISSN:2321-1164 (Online); 2347-2642 (Print)

Amish Tripathi’s Shiva Trilogy consists of three novels, The Immortals of Meluha (2010), The Secrets Of the Nagas (2012) and The Oath of the Vayuputras (2013). It is intended to find how Amish, through his creative expressions, endeavours to assert certain traditional Indian values which are related to the human rights of deprived sections of the ancient Indian society , particularly, tribals and women. Another purpose of this study is to see how far Amish has succeeded in this mythological-historical experiment which he began with the hypothesis of taking Shiva not as a mere mythological god or a figment of imagination but as “a person of flesh and blood, who rose to become godlike because of his karma” and his profound concern for building a peaceful, democratic, prosperous and just world for all human beings in general and tribals and women in particular. It is planned to understand how, in the ancient India, the human rights of tribals and women were violated by the selfish powerful people and also protected by objective and selfless leaders like Shiva, Vasudevas and Vayuputras, so that conduct leading to a denial of rights may be changed, all rights may be respected and civil society of the ancient India may be transformed into peaceful and participatory model. This Trilogy compels us to think that there is equally a need for the protection of the human rights of the deprived sections of the society in the modern times so that such a violation may not tear apart the Indian society and become a menace to the unity and integrity of the Indian people which was established with great efforts in the ancient times by leaders like Shiva. Keywords: supernatural qualities, Shiva Trilogy, mythological figures etc.