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Abstract
Domestic violence on women is an incurable disease of Indian society. Modern culture and civilization has unable to eradicate the root causes of this disease. Even through some social, economic and political reasons can be blamed for increasing rate of domestic violence, but the main reason for this evil is patriarchal thinking. Patriarchal thinking has been growing day by day. A lot of people still consider feminism as a subject of bossy women. The reason for such thinking is ‘politics of culture’. This kind of cultural politics exist in every society under which violence on women has been justifying till now. Sometimes culture play a role of manipulating tool to internalize violence. In this article, an attempt would be made to analyse the politics behind Assamese folk lore as a reason for increasing patriarchal thinking which leads to domestic violence