Subculture as Resistance: Representation of Thugee in P. Sachidanandan ( Anand)?s The Book of Destruction.

Every society produces its peripheries. The dominant societal and hierarchical power structures ( national ,patriarchal or both ) control the agency and the discourse of a society and nation state, thereby silencing sections of the society which are silenced and pushed to the margins. However, these acts of domination and suppression have been always been challenged. The presence of subcultures and the representation of the same can be seen as one of the acts of criticizing the dominant societal and national systems. This paper analyses the novel titled The Book of Destruction by the Malayalam novelist P Sachidanandan (Anand) to argue how, through the representation of the subculture of Thugee, the novel presents an alternative discourse to the nation and state sponsored violence.