DR SUDARSAN SAHOO, DR ITISHREE ACHARYA, RANJAN KUMAR BEHERA AND PRIYADARSHINI PRADHAN
DOI: https://doi.org/Dalit writing in India gained significance in the 1950s.Among the prominent Dalit writers of India,Faustina Bama is a distinguished writer.Ambedkar and Phule started the movement, which gained importance in 1950, and Bama through her wrtings instilled profound thoughts in the reader’s minds.Her main idea was to evoke revolutionary voice in the marginalized that was silenced in the past.Arjun Dangle quotes “Ambedkar shaped the tradition of revolutionary thinking of almost a generation of Dalits who can today hold their heads high.(Dangle 238)Following the footsteps of Ambedkar , Bama chronicles in her narratives the tales of subjugated lives of Dalit women who are thrice marginalized and yet attain their identity , through their journey from pain to power.The transformation is brought about by these Dalit untouchables from their stigmatized identity to self –chosen identity , which is a product of collective struggle against the autrocities society. The present paper is an indepth study of Bama’s Karukku.
Dalit literature is not just literature,but it is the narrative of pain, suffering, humiliation, and a journey towards a change:
