Theory of Dalit Literature

Abstract

‘Literature’ first comes up, thereafter comes the device of analysing it. Dalit literature has evolved in postcolonial India through the exclusive contributions of the untouchables of the country. It is unlike the other forms of literature such as national literature or mainstream literature or the progressive literature. The way of analysing it is also rather different and is unlike the western methodology such as structuralism or poststructuralism or modernism or postmodernism or the Marxian way of analysis. The caste phenomenon of the society along with its adverse effects on a large section of people is to be understood through the windows of those peoples own sufferings and that realisation of ground reality opens the doors to moving on along the way.