Literature Of Dalit Literature

The Caste system has aroused much controversy than any other feature of India’s society. Every day, Dalits are butchered, assaulted, abused, raped, lynched, shot or openly mutilated without considering any consequences of the offenders. The deaths of pregnant women who are not able to pay the bribes at government hospitals, some boys with eyes raised completely out for falling in love with a girl of a superior caste, and horrid stories of employees boiled to death because of spewing out arguments with the boss are continuously reported in mainstream newspapers. After years of democracy, the social structure stands to practice the caste system disregarding abolishment laws. Every international or national effort to abolish caste differentiation and segregation has been proven ineffective. The caste system of India is a deeply inculcated social problem requiring immense commitment domestically and internationally in understanding what has stopped the measures to get rid of this ancient system and what measures are needed to complete elimination of the system.

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

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

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.

India's Untouchables are relegated to the lowest jobs, and live in constant fear of being publicly humiliated, paraded naked, beaten, and raped with impunity by upper-caste Hindus seeking to keep them in their place. Merely walking through an upper-caste neighborhood is a life-threatening offense.

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.

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.

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

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.

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. '

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 man is part of his society, and his society is an essential part of who he is. It is impossible to detangle them”

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).

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.