Dr. Susmita Mitra
Volume-XII, Issue-III, April 2024
Volume-XII, Issue-III, April 2024 | ||
Published Online: 30.04.2024 | Page No: 217-227 | |||
DOUBLE SUFFERINGS OF DALIT WOMEN: A Post-Colonial Feminist study With special reference to Sangati by Bama & The Weave of my Life by Urmila Pawer Dr. Susmita Mitra, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Jagannath Singh College, Udharbond, India. | |
Dalits who are excluded from the four fold Varna system of Hinduism and were seen as forming a fifth Varna who were previously characterized as untouchables in India. The word ‘Dalit’ means “oppressed” or “broken” and this name was given to them in 1930. The Dalits has to face oppression, discrimination, isolation and humiliation from other castes of society in their day to day life. The condition of Dalit women in Indian society are even more tragic as they have to suffer from double discrimination. Dalit literature is about the sufferings of this ‘oppressed classes’. The endless miseries of Dalit women, their inhuman victimization and shocking gender discrimination found a realistic but painful portrayal in the novel like Sangati by Bama and The Weave of My Life by Urmila Pawar which have been taken into consideration in this study to throw a startling insight into the lives of Dalit women who face the double disadvantage of caste and gender discrimination. This paper is a study or the analysis of Dalit oppression, marginalization, discrimination, isolation and humiliation specially women in their day to day life. | |
Keywords: Dalit literature, oppression, marginalization, discrimination, isolation, humiliation. |