| Abstract: | History has eluded women’s voices as mainstream public history was written by men and for men. Traditional history writing focused on men’s history and ignored women’s voices, regarding them to be trivial. This particular research will look at history through a feminist lens and explore the voice of the marginalised women, which had been ignored by mainstream history. This study will focus on the famed Sahitya Akademi award-winning Manipuri novel, Boro Saheb Ongbi Sanatombi (The Princess and the Political Agent) by Maharajkumari Binodini. Partly biographical and partly historical, the novel sways from the traditional male history and looks at a lesser-known historical character, Sanatombi. By analysing her personal life, the paper will bring forth the issues of subjugation, discrimination, and the oppression of women in the then Manipuri society, which were not documented in the public history of the period. |
