Gender Transgression, Motherhood and Desire: Circumventing the Western Queer Ideology - A Post-colonial Literary Reading of Devdutt Pattanaik’s The Pregnant King

The term both gender and biological sex play a significant role in determining human behaviour. foundation for presenting the underlying power structures that have aggressively preserved binary was laid by shift theoretical viewpoint. Similarly, postmodern feminist queer theorists' lenses questioned as social construction rather than natural manifestation of sex. Gender nonconformity transgresses traditionally constructed giving traditional masculinity primary status enabling privilege related to enactment. definition transgression, however, varies significantly across cultures historical Periods. perpetuation hierarchal system is deeply rooted Western cultures. These are embedded reified norms governmental policy. This paper focuses on identifying forms transgression its ideological impingement. Combining insights from post-colonial scholarship, it emphasizes critical importance two-pronged approach. Following recent research redefining discourses limelight theory narratives, this argues revisiting mythological fiction contests prejudice paradigms. Queer narratives South Asian sub-continent signify race, class, religion, diaspora, ethnic, linguistic formations concerning issues surrounding representation non-binary sexualities. Through an intense reading Devdutt Pattanaik’s Mythological text, Pregnant King, study circumvents model identities, tries reposition transformative non-Euro-American context, gives legal pluralistic formation.