Literature Of Dalit Literature

Firstly, the caste system reflects the inequality of Indian society. Although religion in India is characterized by a diversity of religious beliefs and practices, majority of Indian population follow Hinduism. Therefore, the dominance of Hinduism beliefs is common in India. There is a belief in caste system, as Brood said, “a system of hierarchical social organization”1. Hindu society is divided into four main classes; the priestly class, the warrior and administrator class, the producer class who is farmers and merchants and the servant class. The remaining group of people who is “outcastes” is called “untouchables” or dalit. Brodd recognizes “dalits continue to suffer terrible oppression, especially in rural communities in India”. I still could not imagine how terrible this bottom class suffers until reading Max Bearak article. All sufferings of Rohith Vemula, from the hardships of growing up poor, interactions with society in caste to scholarship revoke and suicide, happened tragically because he was born in a dalit family. This is the

There is a machine that take people, and makes them into things. It takes passion, creativity and individuality, and strips it away leaving not even a person but thing embraces monotony and conformity. Every person who embraces it, simply becomes a replaceable clogs to eventually be thrown away. They becomes destin for a meaningless life devoid of purpose.This disastrous machine is society. These views are the only way one can live life to the fullest through the views of nonconformity and self reliance while being willing to accept the consequences it entails

India is known for its highly-restricted or even cruel, inhuman caste system. This caste system will follow an Indian’s life forever, until he died. An Indian can’t choose which caste to be but only nature-born. This caste system highly prevent to social development in India. Recently, this system even destroys the normal, happy life of normal Indians. They fight against caste system for love but ends up suiciding.

groups. It is a system inspired by Hindu scriptures in what the leaders wanted to create a society where jobs and functions were assigned to specific classes. These classes include the highest class, Brahmin made of those who are priests and educated individuals, Kshatriyas otherwise known as the warrior caste, Vaishya this was the trade and commerce class, Shudras, unskilled laborers; the agricultural or manual labor class. This class also includes all others who do not fit into any of the other classes but not to include the “untouchables”. The untouchables are not a caste class they are the rock-bottom of social order. The untouchables or Dalit, are those who are assigned and are forced into occupations that are unclean, defiling or are not members of the caste system, the lowest of the low. It is a handicap to be an untouchable in the eyes of

In fact, by attempting to glamourize suffering by portraying it superficially, writers may lose the connection with us that appreciates literature. Instead, what we are left with is an over extended attempt to glorify suffering, or hide it within a guise of reality that is too savage to be true. Instead of the appreciative feeling that reality imbues within me as a reader, I am left with a sense of disgust, confusion and dissatisfaction. This feeling almost overwhelmed me while reading Adiga’s “The White Tiger” and it tainted my experience with the book. Adiga had written the novel without any firsthand experience in the rural areas of India to which his main character referred to as the darkness. Instead, being of a higher class, his accounts were based on second or third hand experiences which do not adequately depict the lower class’ realities. I found the following depiction of India’s ghettos both farcically unrealistic and eventually

Can marginalized humans have genuine empathy for their oppressors? And if so, how does their passivity towards their oppressors lead to an accumulation of resentment? When reevaluating the narration of The White Tiger, readers should ask themselves these questions while reading it. In addition, Adiga uses the story to exploit the influence of modernization on India’s political corruption and India’s miniscule focus on the maltreatment of poor Indians. The country achieves the ambivalence of poverty by manipulating the lower class through political means. Politicians uphold socialist and democratic ideals without legitimate citizen participation in elections. Even so, the format of the country’s caste system relies on how the subordinate of

Although every caste in the World State is meticulously conditioned to accept the hand they are given, there are still many citizens who are dissatisfied with the quality of life available to them in society. Knowingly or unknowingly, these outliers reject their conditioning and strive for something more, whether it be adversity, danger, or passion.

I stopped using the full of my last name because it denotes caste. So I go by the name Stalin K”, this excerpt from an interview with the ‘India Untouched’ documentary maker, gives us a fair idea of his commitment to the issue of untouchability, something which is also very apparent in his work. More recently seen in Aamir Khan’s ‘Satyameva Jayate’, his documentaries have galvanized international attention towards the issues of caste and untouchability in contemporary India. Spanning across eight states of the country and taking almost 4 years, ‘India Untouched’ is a chilling yet grasping tale of the caste hierarchy and related discrimination seen in various nooks and corners. Comprehensively looking at these issues, tracing them even in states like Kerala (the bedrock of Communism in the country), it succeeds in impressing the viewer with the gravity of the entire issue.

India is being considered as ‘Tiger Economy’ and emerging as a big power on the global map, but in the same country millions of Dalits (broken people) and Tribal (native people) are living in subhuman condition. One of the egregious examples is manual scavenging; according to Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) projection 1.3 million people in India are involved in manual scavenging work. This is unbelievable and unacceptable in any civilized society, but people are forced into manual scavenging work across India. These people are called ‘Untouchables’ and they are Dalits within Dalits in India and their conditions are disgraceful and unparalleled in the world. This is of great significance in my life because I’m a Dalit and was born in the slum of a big city (Ahmedabad). Since an early age I have been experiencing and observing discrimination in the name of caste (social hierarchical structure).

For thousands of years the caste members was well known how they lived, class, region, gender, tribe, and language. They ate, married, and worked with their own group and if that person was born they rarely changed caste or even mixed with other castes. Social rules defined how to behave within a caste and when in the presence people from other castes. In a caste system was well known in India and was supported by Hindu beliefs “the acceptance of one’s fate in life, several major caste dictated one’s life chance from the moment of birth, especially in rural areas” (Kerbo, 2009). The been many controversy in India’s society with stratification and inequality specially in the lower caste that lived in poverty in their lives and the lowest caste was the Dalits known has the untouchables and lived in polluting and unclean occupations and was considered outcastes. In the caste system it caused problems when each other overlapped each other when it came to unequal access to wealth, income, prestige, and power. This paper will examine the history of this group in the United States and misconception about this ethic group.

In the first few excerpts from Al Biruni’s India – an informative text on his observation of Indian life – Al Biruni sets up the stage for his readers to develop a mindset necessary to understand his description of Indian culture, philosophy, language, etc. In this paper, I will establish that Al Biruni’s experience, and hence his explanation of India should have been considerably impacted by his sociopolitical standing. At the same time, I will make the case that despite of his keen efforts to limit his text to informative purposes, he fails to prevent his out-group bias from appearing in his writing.

Untouchables revolves around the circumstances and accounts of happenings within a single day experienced by Bakha, an untouchable or an outcast in the Indian society’s caste system. The eighteen year old Bakha is a sweeper boy who has a very strong desire to learn, yet he faces the harsh reality of being treated lowly and inhumanely by the high caste Hindus. He struggles with the realization of society’s wickedness where untouchables are seen as impure, polluted or corrupt. Eventually, he discovers great impact on the new influences of Christianity, Mahatma Ghandi’s standpoint on ‘Untouchability’, and the poet’s machine to be solutions to his problems.

Contrary, the Dalits who work they not only spilled their blood to protect the life and modesty of land lords the landed gentry in our country who employee innocent women and the majority of them are shudra women folks are exposed to the ruthless violation of human rights, they are forced to work day and night in the fields , even forced to work during their pregnancy, they not only keep themselves hungry and their children turn victim of malnutrion to starve. The landlords break the confidence of poor, starving, hungry, women, they rape them, physically, psychologically and forced them to have sexual relations, even at the time of their pregnancy. Caste Hindus extremely terrible worst when compared to Ravan. In light of the fact henceforth we will not allow things like this to

The upper caste population identified with Dalits as the callous strata of the populace. They “othered” people from the lower castes by continuous oppression, turning this oppressive behavior into a hegemonic process. They identified with them as the dark skinned, though the irony lies in the fact that most Indians are fair skinned Arian stock thus giving rise to the whole Dalits race debate. Gradually, amongst all the debate, the society welcomed with much comments, the printed version of Ambedkar’s speech known as The Annihilation of Caste (1936). The speech is a discussion about what exactly caste is, catering to questions like, is caste about occupation and rigidity, restriction of marriage and dining and so on. Due to the rising classification of caste and growing untouchability, the country saw various movements. The Dalit Aesthetics movement being one of them. The association was a self-respect movement. It was a rejection of the brahminical aesthetics, a denunciation of the Brahmin idea of beauty. Increasing number of works by Dalit writers was a silent protest on the invented supremacy of the brahminical social order that treated the ‘low castes’ worse than animals. It was movement to break down the dogma of eternal oppression that the pyramidal structure followed, where Brahmins at the top and the Shudhras managed to get the bottom most layer of the pyramid. It was a pietistic system where the higher castes molded the rules according to their benefits to keep up with their socio-cultural, economic and political privileges. A fine example of twisting the rules according to one’s own needs can be seen from works like “Deliverance” by Premchand and “Untouchable” by Mulk Raj Anand. In Deliverance, the priest makes the poor soul work in his courtyard all day while he himself was taking rest. Here the priest does not have a problem if a dalit is

We cannot control the passage of time: like water, it slips through our fingers and reminds us that we are ephemeral. If we are born into this world without our will and we leave it without our will then, alone, each of us is vulnerable and separate. Vulnerable to the external forces which influence our sense of identity and then separate from one another due to our biological parameters. As life experience accumulates these newly deposited substances sediment and float to the surface to convalesce into ideas, opinions and emotions and, as Edward de Bono puts it, is ‘where the brain becomes mind. '