Arundhati Roy ’s The God of Small Things created a lot of controversy and criticism from the moment of its publication in 1997. Because the novel raises certain issues like untouchability , marginalisation, subalternity which are deep routed in Indian society and culture. Patriarchal frame work never allows women to work freely . Women are often suppressed and crushed. They have not been given equal rights and opportunities. Alongside, the oppression of women, the most en during form of social inequality in India is the caste system. Roy ’s narrative is unrelenting in its need to bear witness to the routine cruelties of patriarchy , and women characters are consistently bullied, harassed and made to defer to the needs of male relatives and family members. In The God of Small Things Roy explains the crushing sense of caste inferiority felt by older untouchables, such as V elutha’s father Vellya Pappen, as a product of Kerala ’s ingrained rules of caste, epitomized in the ‘Crawling Backward Day’ of the pre-independence period when they were not allowed walk on public roads, not allowed to cover their upper bodies, not allowed to carry umbrellas