INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF DIVERGENT FORCES IN CONFORMITY TO THE TOTALITARIAN AGENCY: A READING OF 'THE CITY AND THE RIVER' BY ARUN JOSHI (Pages 37-45) by Mr. U. Mahendran in THE ENGLISH RESEARCH EXPRESS / ISSN:2321-1164 (Online); 2347-2642 (Print)

Almost all institutions down through the ages have calculatively proceeded over the contradictory forces/voices that tend to exist under its control. In such venture, the guaranteed representation of power agency would absorb such antagonistic resistance by deploying unrecognizable tactics. Such seemingly unidentifiable maneuvers are to be located and challenged, because allowing those expedients to persist would render the common humanity into endless existential disorientation in multiplicity. Being aware of the apparent tools, by which the holistic conception getting imposed, it can at least be restrained, if not be eradicated entirely, which again requires politicizing conflicting voices. The dissemination of concocting ideas might possibly be discharged in terms of; scattering truth/ideology as equal to all, producing constructed discourses as systematized body, constantly manipulating the traditional believes and cultural practices, regularizing different networks in accordance with the prevailing political compulsions, and secretly embarking on surveillance policy. The chosen political fable, The City and the River would be analyzed in the above listed hypothesis. This particular contemporary Indian novel calls for the prospects of inducting the modern historiographic approach into the academia. The novel categorically states the gradual weakening of any system/institution in days together. The aim of the study is to understand and highlight the melting spot of the political missionary. It would be shown with adequate theoretical grounding how the surveillance project is being carried out to subjugate people at large and miner institution to be specific. Efforts would be taken to elucidate the nature of appropriating all the oppositional as well as non-committed constituents, which are to be found in the form of an individual and the groups. Key-words: Institutionalization, Surveillance, Discourse, Power, Appropriation etc.