Exploring Dalit Writer’s perspective: A Comparative Analysis of Key aspects of Phule’s Gulamgiri and Dutt's Coming Out as Dalit

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The post-colonial Indian English prose writing mainly focused on partition, orientalism, diasporic writing, social reform and Dalit literature; ‘the untouchables’ as they were identified during those days. Majority of the Dalit writers and their works represented slavery, caste system, education for this community and social inequality during the post-independence phase. The contemporary writers are brave enough to raise their voice against anything they feel wrong. The writing style has changed yet the key aspects and features of the 1960s or 80s somehow remain similar in present-day Dalit literature. This paper addresses the argument of the central theme of old and new Dalit literature remaining similar. The question is debated with the analysis of Jyotirau Phule’s “Gulamgiri” originally written in Marathi and later translated in English as “Slavery” and contemporary writer Yashika Dutt’s “Coming out as Dalit”. Paper discusses various aspects like social inequality, education for downtrodden and the discrimination remaining the most discussed features of Dalit writing.

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