Negotiating Double Colonisation and Female Sacrifice in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake

The diasporic journey is usually regarded as a linear journey of economic opportunity, but for women, it often necessitates a traumatic negotiation between patriarchal system and racial segregation. Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake depicts a critical site of gendered dislocation in the novel. While existing scholarship extensively covers the protagonist Gogol Ganguli. But it remains a critical need to investigate the various strategies of female survival employed by women characters in the novel. The paper investigates the themes of "Double Colonisation", which is the simultaneous oppression by domestic patriarchy and racial alienation, and the role of female sacrifice in constructing a diasporic identity.This study applies a comparative textual analysis of two central female figures: Ashima Ganguli and Moushumi Mazumdar. the paper investigates the effectiveness of their respective responses to displacement by comparing Ashima's adherence to tradition with Moushumi's intellectual rebellion, The paper analysis is based on Homi K. Bhabha's theory of the "Third Space" to examine cultural hybridity and adding Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's concept of the "subaltern" to decode silence as a survival mechanism.