Paper Details

Name: Sandip Sarang
Country: India

Year: 2014
Volume: Volume-1, Issue-1 (January-June)
Page Number: 63-67

Dalit literature essentially deals with the marginalised groups who are fundamentally devoid of their voice within the Indian society. It is marked by a spirit of protest and revolt and has undergone many ideological shifts in last few decades. The mainstream literature which caters to a sophisticated set of readers or perception has repeatedly shown its reluctance to publish the pain and the anguish of Dalit Literature. Hence every Dalit writer aims to carve a space or voice for himself/herself out of mainstream literature in order to bring to light the injustices meted on to his community. This inevitably creates a subculture within the mainstream literature, a kind of aperture for all the repressed Dalit sentiments which were shrugged off by insensitive society. But the power of literature is immense as it allows the existence and proliferation of dissenting voices to construct a parallel world for self- realisation and problematizes the dominant world view. Poets have constantly tried to publish their voices through literature and Namdeo Dhasal does it by impressively expressing himself in a unique way. Dhasal through his poetry projects the kinds of complicity, acquiescence and indifference shown by various quarters of society against the marginalised.