• ISBN13: 9788126930128
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: June 15, 2020
• Pages: 314
• Original Price: INR 895.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 420 grams

Dalit literature defies inequality, injustice, subjugation, and marginalization; and sows the seeds of revulsion, resistance, and revolution in human minds. It offers a platform for the erstwhile voiceless, dispossessed, and underprivileged sections of the society. Emancipation from the caste prejudice always remains stardust for Dalit people. The most vindictive Hindu caste hierarchy reviles and humiliates them and tries to keep them at their foot level, and that’s why they keep remonstrating and recalling protest marches against injustice. The four basic tenets of the Preamble of the Indian Constitution—justice, equality, liberty, and fraternity—remain a dream even for bourgeois, and the poor Dalits of the far-flung villages remain deprived of their fundamental rights in the society. They get a bit respite by legal laws but get mortified and humiliated in the public faction despite of legal safeguards due to lack of the provisions of expeditious punishments in their day-to-day social war. As a backlash, Dalit repercussions germinate, and social turmoil breaks the piece of the country and creates tug-of-war between Dalits and so-called upper caste people. This book traces out different strands of Dalit visions and it interrogates the monopoly of the caste hierarchs. Different dimensions of Dalit literature have been analysed in this anthology. The scope of this anthology is invaluable as it outlines the whole fabric of Dalit literature and sheds light on the complex dynamics of caste. This book provides conceptual undercurrent on diverse aspects of marginality and further evokes everyone to flatten persistent caste hierarchies in India.

Dr Bijender Singh (MA, MPhil, PhD, UGC-NET, U-SET, MH-SET, HP-SET, H-TET) is an English lecturer, editor and writer from Rohtak, Haryana. He writes in English, Hindi and Haryanavi. He has done Sanskrit Honours (Shastri), Art & Crafts Teacher Course and Multi-Purpose Health Worker (Male) Course. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The Expression: An International Multidisciplinary e-Journal. He has written a few essays, some short-stories and many Hindi lyrics, ghazals, nazms and English poems. He has published many articles in peer-reviewed national and international journals, seminar and conference proceedings and edited anthologies. Many research papers/articles have been written and published on his poetry books. He has written/published around two dozen books. Few of his books are available in the Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA.

• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Contributors
• 1. Different Dimensions of Dalit Discourse: Mapping of the Marginalised from the Height of Insight
• Dr Bijender Singh
• 2. Class and Religion Conscious Society as a Threat to a Peaceful Coexistence of the Dalits: Reflections of Bama in Karukku
• Professor D. Amalraj
• 3. Childhood Memories as Narrated by Sheoraj Singh Bechain in His Autobiography My Childhood on My Shoulders
• Dr Sadhana Agrawal
• 4. Gujarati Dalit Novel and Commitment: An Appraisal
• Harish Mangalam
• 5. Mulk Raj Anand’s Gauri: A Subaltern’s Voice behind the Veil
• Dr Neelam Bhardwaj
• 6. A Critical Analysis of K.A. Gunasekaran’s The Scar: Knowledge Empowering Concept that Changed Paradigms
• Dr Sumitra Singh
• 7. Subalternity and Marginality as Powerful Tools for Projecting Dalit Consciousness in Literary Intellectual Discourses: A Critical Appraisal
• Dr C. Ramya
• 8. Unpleasant Memories of Childhood: Dalit Perspectives in Balbir Madhopuri’s Changiya Rukh: Against the Night
• Dr Suruchi Sharma
• 9. Liminality in Love: The Breaking of Brahmanism in Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man
• Dr Budhanath Pratihast
• 10. The Politics of Subversion: An Interpretation of Bengali Dalit Refugee Identities
• Dr Udayan Gautam
• 11. Agonies of the Casteism and Poverty: An Analysis of Urmila Pawar’s Memoir The Weave of My Life
• Dr Kusum Kanger
• 12. A Contrapuntal Reading of Dalit Folk Dance Drama Traditions in Kalyan Rao’s Untouchable Spring
• Ravi Kant
• 13. Women’s Journey from Enslavement to Emancipation through Ambedkarism as Picturised in Baby Kamble’s The Prisons We Broke
• N. Kaushi Reddy
• 14. The Curse of Poverty and Casteism: Childhood Memories in Laxman Gaikwad’s The Branded: Uchalya
• Sanjay Kumar
• 15. Social Concerns for the Poor and Treatment of Societal Issues in Mulk Raj Anand’s Select Novels: An Analytical Document
• S.F. Filomine White Sheela
• 16. Dalits as Orients versus Brahmins as Occidents with an Analysis of Edward Said’s Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient
• A.P. Pavithra Bhuvaneshwari
• 17. Metamorphosis from Untouchability to Superiority: A Study of Narendra Jadhav’s Untouchables: My Family’s Triumphant Journey Out of the Caste System in Modern India
• Arun Kumar
• 18. Projection of “Dalit Feminism” in Shilpa Anthony Raj’s The Elephant Chaser’s Daughter: A Brief Appraisal
• N. Padmapriyadhshini
• 19. Marginalization of Dalit Women: A Critical Analysis of P. Sivakami’s Novel The Grip of Change
• K.M. Keerthika
• 20. Ostracism as Depicted in the Select Works of Mulk Raj Anand
• J. Shamem Banu
• 21. Anti-Hindu Ideology in Kancha Ilaiah’s Why I am Not a Hindu
• K. Sunitha Devi
• 22. Exploring Dalit Women as the “Other Body” in Bama’s Sangati
• Suraiya Shahin
• 23. Marginalization and Self Identity in Mulk Raj Anand’s Novel Untouchable
• Dr Meenu Dudeja
• 24. Fruitless Struggles of Dalit Women against Physical and Sexual Harassment of a Dalit Womanizer: A Study of P. Sivakami’s The Taming of Women
• Dr B. Pavithra
• 25. Exposition of Identity Crisis in Sharankumar Limbale’s The Outcaste
• Dr Pooja Sharma
• 26. Manohar Mouli Biswas’ Surviving in My World: A Study of Emerging Alternative Discourse in Bengal
• Asit Kanti Sarkar and Dr Dipendu Das
• 27. Threads of Marginality in the Selected Indian English Texts
• Dr Manisha Sharma
• 28. Exploring the Subaltern Voices: A Study of Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
• Dr Rumana Ashraf
• 29. A Literary Peep into Dalit Literature: An Overview
• Dr S. Chelliah