Who Are Dalits? A Dalit?

Topic for the Seminar:Dalits In India By K.Hymavathi Asst.Proffessor Dept.Of AS&H Vitam College of Engg. Visakhapatnam My Paper deals with the “Social Status of Dalits during the pre and post Independent India” India is a vast country. It is a land of rich culture and heritage. It is also a land of unity in diversity with its people following multi-religion and speaking many languages. India enjoys a democratic form of government. It has become independent 62years ago. Cast System In India: Social

Christian Dalits also suffer alienation from their fellow Hindu Dalits because of social and religious differences. Hindu Dalits see their fellow Christian Dalits as potential competitors in the share of reservations which are given by the government. This disfavor is primarily due to non-Christian Dalits seeing their Christian counterparts as already having benefited from and uplifted by missionary and ecclesiastical assistance. Many of them also see conversion to Christianity as a shameful surrender

Hindi Dalit literature’s moment has arrived. After years of obscurity and unflattering comparisons to the maturity and expressiveness of Dalit literature in languages such as Marathi and Tamil, creative Dalit writing in Hindi is finally reaching a more visible level of popular recognition. Hindi Dalit novels, autobiographies, short-story and poetry anthologies, as well as volumes of literary criticism, are today being regularly published by Delhi’s top Hindi-language publishing houses, Rajkamal and

Dalit movement started under the leadership of Dr. Ambedkar and within that the Dalit women movements struggle of within and out discrimination of Dalit women. Dalit women movement inspired by Dr. Ambedkar, Savitri and Jotiba Phule and adopted the ideology of them in their struggle against caste, patriarchy and class. Historically, lower caste women or Dalit women have been exploited on the basis of social, economic, political, and cultural grounds. Caste system and patriarchy are the major system

I. Introduction The prime focus of this paper is to explore the modern Pentecostal or charismatic movement and its impacts among the Dalits and the tribal in India. In this paper the presenter will also try to bring out a brief origins and historical development of Pentecostalism, in order to understand the movement and its impact on the Dalits and the tribal in India. 1. Etymology of the term Pentecostal The term Pentecostal is derived from the Greek word pentekosté which literally means ‘fifty’

Constraints in obtaining education by Dalits • Dependency on dominant castes for their livelihood. • Poverty and economic backwardness. • Discriminatory practices against Dalit students by teachers and other dominant castes. • Lack of continued employment opportunities. • .Neglect of education in welfare schemes. • Mushrooming of private schools. • Family burdens and responsibilities. • Irrelevant curriculum. • Lack of proper guidance. • Lack of quality education. • Compulsions of earning at a young

Bama Faustina is the most distinguished Dalit fiction writer in Tamil, and one of the most acclaimed of all Dalit women writers. She was born in Madras in 1958. Her autobiographical novel Karukku was the first Tamil Dalit text on the Christian Dalit community, through which she rose to fame. After the success of Karukku, Bama wrote Sangati and Kusumbukkaran. In India, there is a huge campus of religion situated in the society. There are four major caste divisions in India, Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya

pose a tension that reaches out to the reader, arousing in one a sense of need that will not be satisfied: “What will you say of your feeling Living with a sister who terrorizes Even manic depressions out of your mind? (‘Sage in the Cubicle’) Kandasamy’s poems portray such a dreadful picture of varied agonies experienced by Dalits that her poems seem as an encyclopaedia of painfulinventories. Untouchable turns into touchable for upper caste when it fits their selfish deeds andlusty demands

Study of Dalit Literature of subalternity through an upsurge of new social class and consciousness among the Depressed section Dr. Pravat Ranjan Sethi pravatjnu@gmail.com Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. - B.R. Ambedkar Abstract Dalit is a category of self-definition of Untouchables

he knew that the Marxism is not suitable of India because there is not only class but also caste. He noticed that the Marxism is insufficient to the development of Dalits and underprivileged so he accepted Ambedkarism. Therefore although the writing of Sathe was talking about class struggle, later taking against caste system and Dalit injustice and Smashyanatil Son, Thadgyatil Had, Nilu Mang, Savla Mang, Sapla, Valan etc books are examples. There were many incidents indicated that the Ambedkarism