Challenging the Hegemony: Tracing the Dalit Voices across Various Ages
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Dalit, Oppression, Hegemony, Identity, Untouchability, Resistance, DominanceAbstract
This paper is an attempt to trace those major struggles in the History of India which strengthened the Dalit voices/ identities in the society. The present form of Dalit literature is the outcome of various challenges posed by various personalities/systems from time to time to counter the caste-based oppression. A glimpse of History corroborates the fact that there have been resistance and assertion in a form or the other against the exploitation and discrimination did in the name of Varna system. As we know, Buddhism was the first religion which considered all human beings equal irrespective of their caste and birth. In a similar way, there have been other initiatives across various ages which have a substantial contribution to re/shaping the Dalit identity.
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