CONTENTS Foreword . 9 Introduction . 13 Notes on the Contributors . 25 1. Dalit and Subaltern Consciousness as Projected by Select Indian Novelists in Their Fictional World: A Critical Appraisal . 35 Dr S Chelliah and Dr Bijender Singh 2. The Doubly Oppressed: The Portrayal of Dalit Women in Bama’s Sangati . 43 Dr Shalini Saxena 3. Gujarati Dalit Poetry and Commitment . 55 Harish Mangalam 4. Journey of Marginalisation towards Fruition in Urmila Pawar’s The Weave of My Life . 71 Dr M. Richard Enrico and Dr V. Nagarajan 5. Orthodoxy – A Shameless Pursuit of Identity: Dr B.R. Ambedkar’s Ultimatum Attack on Brahmanic Theories from Who were the Shudras?: A Historical Documentation . 81 Dr C. Ramya 6. Tyranny by the Caste Hierarchs: An Analysis of Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance . 91 Dr Suruchi Sharma 7. Portrayal of the Conditions of Dalits in Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable . 101 Dr V. Nagarajan and Dr F. Vincent Rajasekar 8. Meena Kandasamy’s Touch: Vocalisation of Dalit Ordeal . 109 Neha Raina 9. Silence of the Subaltern in Dalit Writings . 127 Dr V. Nagarajan and Dr S. Pushpalatha 10. Performing Resistance or Caste-Pride Celebration: A Study of Selected Indian Dalits Folk-Rap Music . 135 Dr Ishrat Jahan 11. Urmila Pawar’s The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman’s Memoir – A Brief Analysis . 147 K.M. Keerthika 12. Journey from Marginalisation to Liberation: A Critical Appraisal of Omprakash Valmiki’s Joothan: A Dalit’s Life . 157 Sanjay Kumar 13. Picture of Motherhood in Mother of 1084 and Bayen by Mahasweta Devi: A Critical Analysis . 165 S. Divya Bharathi 14. Projection of Dalit Womanism in Gogu Shyamala’s Selected Short-Story Collection Father May Be an Elephant and Mother Only A Small Basket, But An Analysis . 175 N. Kaushi Reddy 15. The Daughters That Weren’t: The Saga of Dalit Feminism . 187 Guni Vats 16. A Threefold Oppression in Bama’s Karukku and P. Sivakami’s The Taming of Women . 197 Disha Sharma 17. Subaltern Voices and Dalit Issues in Bama’s Karukku: A Critical Analysis . 209 S. F. Filomine White Sheela 18. Malayalam Dalit Poetry: A Reflection of Cultural Marginality . 221 Dr S. Chelliah and Dr Kishore Ram 19. Dalit Marginalisation and Caste Atrocities in Sheoraj Singh Bechain’s My Childhood on My Shoulders . 233 Dr Kusum Kanger 20. Looking at Caste, Gender and Dissent in Baburao Bagul’s “Mother” . 243 Dr Prachi Priyanka 21. Juxtaposition of Dalit Narratives with Afro-American Slave Narratives in the Vicinity of Emancipation: A Brief Comparative Note . 255 A.P. Pavithra Bhuvaneshwari 22. Pariah or Harijan: The Struggle of a Lifetime . 265 Dr Jayashree Hazarika 23. Ventriloquising Dalit Repression in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger . 275 Dr Pallavi Saxena 24. Unheard Agonies: An Analysis of Balbir Madhopuri’s Changiya Rukh: Against the Night . 287 Dr Sumitra Singh 25. The Hunted Body and the Haunting Retaliation in Mahasweta Devi’s Draupadi . 295 Dr Sakunthala A.I. 26. Hunger, Thievery and Resistance in Laxman Gaikwad’s Uchalya: The Branded . 305 Dr Sadhana Agrawal Index . 315 The term 'Dalit' has often been used in academic discourse representing economic inequality, cultural exile, agonised experience, caste humiliation, social injustice, communal bias, social disability and suppression projecting rather significantly in the works of writers from the Indian subcontinent. While Dalit issues and concerns have drawn sufficient attention of various critics and writers, Dalit Literature in Indian languages is gaining ground recently with a steady leap towards due recognition. This book is a humble attempt to project how Dalit issues and concerns have had a decisive, revisionary impact on the discipline of literary and critical studies. Among first of its kind in India, present anthology of twenty-six research papers on various Dalit themes is bound to prove valuable for academics, students and scholars. As a valuable document of social criticism, this book entitled Dalit Literature: Journey from Repression to Resistance epitomises one healthy step for projecting Dalit consciousness in literature especially in Indian English Literature. In a nutshell, all lovers and readers of literature, especially Dalit Literature will find this book extremely useful and informative. The esteemed contributors, who have enriched this book with their valuable research papers, are Dr S. Chelliah, Dr Bijender Singh, Dr Shalini Saxena, Harish Mangalam, Dr V. Nagarajan, Dr M. Richard Enrico, Dr C. Ramya, Dr Suruchi Sharma, Dr F. Vincent Rajasekar, Neha Raina, Dr S. Pushpalatha, Dr Ishrat Jahan, K.M. Keerthika, Sanjay Kumar, S. Divya Bharathi, N. Kaushi Reddy, Guni Vats, Disha Sharma, S.F. Filomine White Sheela, Dr Kishore Ram, Dr Kusum Kanger, Dr Prachi Priyanka, A.P. Pavithra Bhuvaneshwari, Dr Jayashree Hazarika, Dr Pallavi Saxena, Dr Sumitra Singh, Dr Sakunthala A.I. and Dr Sadhana Agrawal.