Socio-Political Concerns in Dalit Literature: A Critical Survey

Dalit literature is now over arching the vernacular languages. Written often in the material or territorial, it intends to shrug out of the insular to the global. It has, through he politics of deconstructing its lived experience, bought about a change in borders, a rethinking of the margins and an erasure of boundaries and most importantly valorized a language of power through dissent. The present anthology is a humble effort to bring the neglected parts of the Indian social fabric into the mainstream, by cogitating over the configurations of Dalit literature, its multifarious dimensions and potentialities in developing anew consciousness and identity among Dalits, besides trying to sensitize the non-Dalits with the issues and concerns of Dalits through different genres of their literary productions. At this juncture what is more important and engaging is the fact of sufferings of Dalits because the period of their pain, agony, misery, humiliation, exploitation and inhuman treatment they were subjected to, is as old and long as is the existence of any institution. English is the only tool that can connect the Dalits in India; being the language of modernity it can connect people around the globe to the Dalit experiences. It is a creative and exclusive effort to look at the scene in a heightened moment of time from the window to scan the past history of Dalits, assess the present and imagine the probable future and its impact on the society.