Chandra Mohanty is a very famous Indian-British writer and scholar. “Under Western Eye: Feminist Scholarship and colonial discourse,” is a most famous essay by Chandra Mohanty. This essay was officially published in 1986. The term “scholarship” in this essay indicates the women or any gender and when we talk about the “Feminist Scholarship” then we came to know that this term is used to understand the Political values of women's movements. Mohanty’s essays on women invoke thought on the aspects of feminism. Women in third-world countries are subjugated even by the feminists of the West as Western feminists wholly ignore the needs and struggles encompass the women of the less developed countries. The hegemony of the West, even in the feminism realm shows the aspect of colonization, which is a clear indication that women in third world countries are suffering twice and their conditions are more threatening than the Western feminists. The responsibility lies upon the shoulders of third-world feminists to dig deep in the historiography of resistance and highlight the ignorant aspects to vividly improve consciousness of the problems of the lesser privileged female community. To arouse a larger impact on the struggles Mohanty emphasizes the need for a time-specific and dynamic aspect of history. This will also help in defining the common problems of feminism in heterogeneous sociocultural contexts. So, in the whole essay, Mohanty talks about Feminist scholarship and she critiques western feminists. This essay demonstrates that most of the western scholars who were interested in Feminist scholarship are universalizing and considering the third world feminists. Mohanty has a critique on this that you can’t consider third-world feminism generally. In this essay, Mohanty just critiques the people who are working in the west on Feminism. All the scholars in the west are describing that the problems of the women from third world countries are the same but according to the point of view of Mohanty, this perception is totally wrong. If we talk about Mohanty’s point of view, then we came to know that Mohanty’s idea is totally opposite to this perception. She said that the problems of all women are different, and her idea is very beyond the borders. According to Mohanty, we can’t assume that the woman of third world countries and the woman of the west have the same problems. Women are struggling in different ways. In some places, they have the privilege to struggle for their right and on the other hand, there are places where women can’t even come out to raise their voices. So, Mohanty is just saying that we can’t assume that the women in third-world countries have the same problems. If we take the example of Pakistan, then we can see that the woman of the upper class and the woman from the village have totally different problems and hurdles. In many villages of Pakistan, women have no freedom to go to school or even they don’t have the freedom to come out of their houses. But if we see the women in Lahore have their own problems and hurdles to face.
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