Manuscript Number : GISRRJ23649
Conceptual Insights of Neo Dalitism in the Light of Recent Dalit Writings
Authors(1) :-Dr. Jyoti Thakur Dalits are the marginalized people who are suppressed even today in the twenty-first century. In contemporary India, the word Dalit writings have been changing its meaning from caste to social and cultural functionality. Focusing only on caste would distort its collective meaning. Writings from the margin stands for globalization. The paper dissects the realities of today's Dalit community, what the word means today and how it is different from its earlier meaning. Dalit literature has its roots in the Ambedkarite thoughts. These writing have its own genre in Indian texts which emerge with its regional languages. First, this genre fights for its rights and equality in society. A traumatic realism is the principle cause of oppression and suppression of the community. Is it still a caste based or community or is it differentiated with other strata, and who are responsible for making such demarcation in the society. The Indian diaspora is differentiated on various stratas whether it is on regional, religious, caste, cultural lines. Dalit diaspora is also a part of a big umbrella term Diaspora, which raise the voice of the community fighting against the violation of Dalit rights at the international level. The objective of this paper is to analyze the importance and the very need to research on this part of a community which have always been discriminated on caste and culture basis and not on economic basis. This paper also discuss various text like Jhoothan by Om Prakash Valmiki. The concept of Neo Dalitism is the need of present world to understand. A compromise between the leaders of Hindu caste and the depressed classes was reached on September 24, 1932, popularly known as Poona Pact. The resolution announced in a public meeting on September 25 in Bombay confirmed -" henceforth, amongst Hindus, no one shall be regarded as an untouchable by reason of his birth and they will have the same rights in all the social institutions as the other Hindus have"
Dr. Jyoti Thakur Globalization, Marginalization, Traumatic Realism, Contemporary India, Neo Dalitism, Dalit Diaspora. Publication Details Published in : Volume 6 | Issue 4 | July-August 2023 Article Preview
Guest Faculty in English, Department of Comparative Languages and Culture, Baraktullah University, Bhopal. M.P., India
Date of Publication : 2023-07-15
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 50-54
Manuscript Number : GISRRJ23649
Publisher : Technoscience Academy
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