DALIT WRITINGS: Emerging Perspectives

Book Details:

• Title: Dalit Writings: Emerging Perspectives

• Author: Santosh Gupta

• Publisher: Rawat Publications

• ISBN: 9788131612309

• Language: English

• Edition: 2022

• Pages: 240

• Binding: Hardcover

• Release Date: 01 December 2022

• Features: Literature, Minorities

About the Book:
Dalit Writings: Emerging Perspectives is a comprehensive anthology that brings together 24 insightful essays and an introduction, offering a critical exploration of Dalit literature across languages, genres, and generations. This volume presents a scholarly engagement with Dalit narratives—from early thinkers like Jotirao Phule and Dr. B.R. Ambedkar to contemporary voices such as Kancha Ilaiah and Kalyani Thakur.

The contributors examine how historical, political, and socio-cultural changes in India have shaped Dalit identities and inspired a vibrant corpus of literature rooted in protest, self-expression, and resistance. The book probes the evolution of Dalit consciousness, evaluates the aesthetic and theoretical frameworks of this literary movement, and challenges the dominant narratives that marginalize these voices.

This book is a valuable academic resource for scholars, students, and general readers interested in Dalit literature, postcolonial theory, social justice, and Indian cultural studies.

Contents:

1. Working Through Experience: Writing, Reception and Evaluation / Jasbir Jain

2. The ‘Other’ Indians: Dalit Discourse in Angaliyat / Raj Kumar

3. Resistance in Dalit Short Stories / Usha Bande

4. Poetic Parallels: Ethelbert Miller & Namdeo Dhasal / S.R. Ghosh & Nibir K. Ghosh

5. Interview with Kalyani Thakur Charal / Jaydeep Sarangi & Bidisha Pal

6. Kancha Ilaiah’s Perspective / Santosh Gupta

7. Dalit Women’s Voices / Shobha P. Shinde

8. Literature and Dalit Identity Crisis / Mini Nanda

9. Bama’s Karukku as Social Movement / Charu Mathur

10. Interrogating Untouchable by M.R. Anand / Nidhi Singh

11. Fishermen in Bangla Dalit Writing / Bandana Chakrabarty

12. Social Exclusion in Pyre and Samskara / S. Asha

13. Love Across Caste: Sangati & Samskara / Preeti Bhatt

14. Kalyani Thakur and Community Self-Construction / Madhuri Chatterjee

15. Reappraising Annihilation of Caste / Mukesh Pareek

16. Ecosomatic in Mahasweta Devi’s Stories / Akansha Kaushik

17. Exploring Akkarmashi / Somya Sharma

18. Dalit Deprivation in Joothan & God of Small Things / Neeraj Kumar

19. Feminism in Godhad and Rodali / V. S. M.

20. Bahujan Representation and Discrimination / Grishma Khobragade

21. Archetypal Reading of Bama’s Works / Nirwan & Preeti Bhatt

22. Power & Resistance in Mohandas / Jyoti Bhatia

23. Untouchable Spring: A Hopeful Narrative / Urmil Talwar

24. Freedom and Dreaming in I Have Become the Tide / Santosh Gupta

About the Editor:
Santosh Gupta is an independent scholar and former Professor and Chairperson, Department of English, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. Her academic interests include Indian literature, postcolonial studies, and modern fiction, with a special focus on writings from India’s border states.

Bandana Chakrabarty, also an independent scholar, served as Joint Director (Academic) in the Commissionerate of College Education, Rajasthan. With over three decades of teaching experience, she is also the author of Fictions of the Self: Alice Munro and co-editor of multiple anthologies.