In the mainstream Indian historical and political discourse,satis are described as either"heroines"or"victims"without a voice of their own.In Sea of Poppies and Rich Like Us,Amitav Ghosh and Nayantara Sahgal actively explore the voices of this marginalized group through two characters:Deete and the great-grandmother.By drawing on the ideas mainly of the Indian scholars including Ranajit Guha,Partha Chatterjee,Ashis Nandy,and Gayatri C.Spivak,this paper conducts a thorough analysis of the existential predicaments of Deete and the great-grandmother,reveals the exploitation and oppression of satis by Indian patriarchy,British colonialism and Indian nationalism,as well as the active and passive resistance of the two satis,and in so doing believes the two novels subvert the two traditional images of satis as"heroines"and"victims",and reshape diverse"Kali"-like satis,presenting their subaltern consciousness and heterogeneous subject experience that are concealed or ignored by the mainstream discourse.
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