‘The Village in The Jungle’ as a colonial writing, is elaborately fashioned to explore the naturally adapted yet irrationally socialized native sphere in order to portray the conventionally embedded organic whole within which diverse dichotomies exist that can be perceived as inextricably interconnected. Arising out of this intricate muddle of incompatible interrelations, the image of woman appears as a victimized docile body whose subaltern existence is repressed within the narrowed mythological theism, native cultural principles and socially attributed characteristics. Leonard Woolf as a colonial administrative officer endeavors to elaborately comprehend the unfathomable cosmos which intermingles itself with the obscured omnipotence of nature. With the imperial manipulation which excavates the roots of the native civilization and the repressive conventional taboos which force constraints on the certain social functions, how the feminine figure of the native culture was made to be a fragile hollow being, is encapsulated by Woolf through this narrative. In analyzing and elaborating the perspectives which are discussed within the research paper the theoretical perspectives of Simon de Beauvoir (‘The second sex’), Sigmund Freud, (‘Civilization and its Discontents’,), Slavoj Zizek, (‘Looking Awry’), Edward Said (‘Culture and Imperialism’) and Govind Kelkar and Dev Nathan (Gender Relations in Forest Societies in Asia) are referred with a thorough consideration. Thus, this literary study has focused on reflecting the social position and identity of the women in ‘The Village in The Jungle’, more explicitly their relationship with nature and further it has critically examined ‘the portrayal of feminine figure’ in relation to the varied social components which function as the manipulative social apparatuses within the novel while analyzing the narrator’s point of view in illustrating the feminine figures in the novel ‘The Village in the Jungle’ as an observer in the outer sphere. Consequently, the study has excavated the buried feminine roots from the obscured native sphere and will make the muted voices of those subaltern bodies to be heard.

Keywords
Femininity , Native woman , Colonialism , Nature- Culture dichotomy , Patriarchy