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AMBEDKARISM IS NONE OTHER THAN MODERNISM R. Kumara Swamy Asst. Prof. of English K L University Vaddeswaram Guntur Andhra Pradesh, India ABSTRACT:: Dr. Baba Sahib Ambedkar was one to raise his voice for Dalit cause who brought out a social revolution through Dalit literature after 1960s and through the establishment of a social organization based on his principles. The Maher movement of Maharastra has been seen as all India Movement under the leadership of B.R. Ambedkar. Ambedkarism protested against

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

They said Jesus is a redeemer so he wants to see every people are equal for everything. It went a direct impact in India when Dr. Ambedkar and Srinivasa were working with Dalit to eradicate untouchability in India. Nepal also influenced by this progressive work but it was a rule of an authoritarian monarchy. They massaged many Dalit that Hindu caste system was the oppressor both in India and

Writings of Dalits as marginalized will mainly focus on the despair ,sufferings ,oppression , alienation and “HOW” and “WHEN” these voices of the marginalized will be heard. Now the Question arises will Education be the medium to emancipate the Dalits ? May be yes as Bama in her novel Karukku majorly dealt with the aspect of emancipation of the Dalits through education. As she put it in her Novel “Both in the Hostel and in the School

India’s Caste System 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

The Indian caste system describes the system of social stratification and social restrictions in India in which social classes are defined by thousands of endogamous hereditary groups, often termed jātis or castes. Within a jāti, there exist exogamous groups known as gotras, the lineage or clan of an individual. In a handful of sub-castes such as Shakadvipi, endogamy within a gotra is permitted and alternative mechanisms of restricting endogamy are used (e.g. banning endogamy within a surname). The

3.3 Alcoholism The portrayal of alcoholism, which has been rampant through the generations cannot be denied and presents a paradox with which the native writers must grapple. The pathetic city drunks and the pitiful alcoholic parents of the warm water sisters, Junior, Thomas, and Victor ring like wake up calls to the social problems faced by the Indian people. The representation of alcoholism in the text, Reservation Blues, highlights a stereotypical social image of the drunken Indian. It

Over three thousand years ago ancient India had made up the Caste system. The Caste system was created so that all people could make spiritual and economic advancements in their lives. For many people it helped them more of a peaceful life so that their next life would be better than what it was in the life they were living at that point in time. Many people these days would think that since the caste system was made over three thousand years ago, that there is no way something like how people were

by a wounded self with specific experience, the experience of Dalit women. It argued against patriarchy and caste oppression. Bama’s personal struggle finds her own identity, Karukku which means Palmyra leaves. Bama attempts to overcome her existential despite stemming from her alienation from the convent and her community. Karukku was a new genre in the history of Tamil Literature; it has gained many praises and many scorned it. Dalit literature was born out of anguish of unjust social systems based

Synopsis of the film: This is the story of village, Shaikhpura. It comes under the jurisdiction of an old Tahseel of Northern India, which is a Muslim dominated area. But, there is a small basti of Dalits in the middle of the Shaikpura which is called LoharTola. This basti was established by a Muslim Zamindar many decades back with the sole aim of getting his work done in his fields and other such works. However, with the changing of time, a lot of changes take place among the inhabitants of LoharTola