Analysis Of Dallit Literature

Until the beginning of the 20th century there was no formal education available for Dalits. Dalit literature as a genre emerged only in 1970’s through some of the Dalit protest movements in Maharshtra and Andhra Pradesh. Dalit literature is the literature produced by the Dalit consciousness. Human freedom is the inspiration behind it. Dalit literature must be written from the Dalit point of view and with a Dalit vision. The “Dalit view point” calls for writer to internalise the sorrows and sufferings of the Dalits. Any writer with some Dalit sensibility may have Dalit view point but not necesarily “Dalit Vision”. The differene between Dalit view point and Dalit vision can be found in the dsired objective. A person with the Dalit view point aims for a limited transformation whereas person with the Dalit vision demands a total revolution and transformation. When the narrator is from outside the Dalit community, there is a greater possibility of narrating merely as an observer, whereas when the narrator is from within the community, more than his observation, his experience percolates into his thought.
Dalit autographies are the product of dalit culture which is riddenwith social evils like extreme poverty, starvation, illiteracy, ignorance, unhygienic health and habitation, etc. Speaking of untold misery of its people dumped over for years, Dalit autobiographies demand libertion from their wretchedness. Dalit movements interrogate the authoritative cultural ethos about their own existance and found themselves nowhere in the pages of history. They carved out a niche for themselves to expose the heartbreaking saga of their own