Dalit

This chapter presents an overall view about feminism movement in general with special reference about Dalit Feminism. The term 'Dalit Feminism deals with special status of a woman who is also marginalised for her caste & gender. With some other writers here we discuss about short stories of Urmila Pawar a Dalit Feminist of India. Concept of Feminism In the mid 1800s the term 'feminism ' was used to refer to 'the qualities of females", and it was not until after the first International Women…

powerlessness which contribute to exploitation and violence against Dalits – formerly known as untouchables. It is matter of regret that most of us are not familiar with the term ‘Dalit’. We mainly know them as sweepers or cleaners. There is no national statistics as regards what the total number of Dalits in Bangladesh. Different sources provide different numbers. In Bangladesh there are an estimated 5.5 million Dalits (Farzana, 2011) In Dhaka, Dalit communities live in so called ‘colonies’…

The Dalit Literature that now occupies a seminal space in the contemporary literary domain actually took its birth from the odious system of untouchability and casteism prevalent in the Indian society since ages. It emerged on the scene as a realistic reflection of the conditions of the oppressed classes in India. The literature was essentially against exploitation and formally began as a movement in 1960’s. It was not an ordinary literary movement but a byproduct of identity as well as a…

Gurudwaras. The Dalits used to worship Gramdevatas, Hindu temples, and Dargahs at this juncture. Shyam Sunder arrived on the scene and while Dr Ambedkar was alive, he started celebrating his birthday for the whole year and started educating his people that they should not visit any religious places and the result was people started celebrating Babasaheb birth day as assertion and slowly it became a fare for…

Dalit oppression, and the reverse mechanism of socio-political and religious upheavals against such tendencies have long been part of the Indian set up. Mass conversions to Buddhism, Sikhism, Islam, in the sub-continent, as documented in history, speaks volumes of the denial of basic human rights to the Dalits or the Untouchables by the caste Hindus. These conversions in no way guaranteed the allocation of rights to the Dalits, who continued to suffer under the yoke of overbearing Hindu…

Portrait of The Indian as a Young Dalit Girl” is an article written by Priyanka Dubey, published in The Ladies Finger on 1st July 2015.1 The article follows the story of Janvi, a 13 year old Dalit girl from Bhangana, Hisar, who, along with her friends, was drugged and raped by a group of upper caste Jat boys. It had all started off with a land dispute between the Dalits and the Jats, where the latter built a brick wall around the disputed land, thereby blocking the Dalits' access to water,…

According to the 2011 census, Dalits make up 16.6% of India's population. Scheduled Castes (the official term for Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist Dalits) population in India is around 201 million. However, The total number of Dalits is probably much higher as Muslim and Christian Dalits are not included in these figures. Making up such a significant part of Indian society, the improvement of Dalits would certainly contribute a lot to the improvement of the whole society. This improvement, we say,…

Dalits, as he pointed out, are born artists “Art was in their veins , in their blood ,in the depths of their hearts, in their very sweat”. He narrates the predicament of Dalit in a society where caste decides the destiny of man over his knowledge and natural gifts he possess right from his birth. Through literary works, Dalit writers are trying to preserve the self-respect, identity and heritage of their community…

lives of dalit women in patriarchal society with reference to Baburao Bagul’s short story “Mother”. The story projects the life of a dalit woman who was oppressed by both caste and gender. Through the life of the mother in the story the author shows the universality of her experience among all the dalit women. Dalit women were marginalised among an already marginalized class. The dual oppression of caste and gender creates an intensity of oppression which becomes unbearable for a dalit woman.…

Power Structure: A Study of Dalit Self narratives from Humanistic Perspective Dr.Babasheb Ambedkar in his speech “Annihilation of Caste” says: You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a nation; you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole. The above quoted lines of Dr.Ambedkar is the main ideology that constructs the notion of Dalit self narratives. Dalit self narratives focus…