Indian Dalit Literature Quest for Identity to Social Equality | Original Article

ABSTRACT:

The paper attempts to trace the impact of Indian Dalit Literature focusing on the question of Identity as well as Equality cruelties by the subjugated group, exploitation of the untouchables, caste segregation, oppression by the dominant class, suppression of women turn out to be the subjects of this new genre of subaltern literature. The voiceless anger from the deep-rooted souls of the downtrodden weaker minds are clearly depicted in the writings which are articulated as Poems, short stories, novels or essays along with their biographical accounts in many case. Dalit literature being a new dimension is the primary concept the literature of marginality. It can also be termed as the postcolonial nativist movement in creating castes, tribes and the voiceless suppressed by the voiced. Dalit Literature can be termed as the protest literature with lot of frustration, anger, hope, and suppression. The main themes of Dalit writings are social disabilities, caste system, economic inequality, contemporary cruelties and cultural assertion that can be uniquely entitled as the struggle for identity. The writings replicate the resistance, issue of identity, experience of pain and moreover a communal distinctiveness. Dalit Literature today is slowly elevating to the level of conventional literature. The resistance of this kind of literature is confronting from the dominant literary groups and the legitimacy is being granted in the snail pace as a new mode of literaryaesthetic imagination.