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Dalit literature is a genre of Indian writing that focuses on the lives, experiences, and struggles of the Dalit community, who have faced caste-based oppression and discrimination for centuries. [1][2][3] This literature encompasses various Indian languages such as Marathi, Bangla, Hindi, [4] Kannada, Punjabi, [5] Sindhi, Odia and Tamil and ...
Malika Amar Sheikh. Namdeo Laxman Dhasal (15 February 1949 – 15 January 2014) was a Marathi poet, writer and Dalit activist from Maharashtra, India. He was one of the founders of the Dalit Panthers in 1972, a social movement aimed at destroying caste hierarchy in Indian society. The movement was active in the 1970s and the 1980s during which ...
The term Dalit is a self-applied concept for those called the "untouchables" and others that were outside of the traditional Hindu caste hierarchy. [ 5 ][ 6 ] Economist and reformer B. R. Ambedkar (1891–1956) said that untouchability came into Indian society around 400 CE, due to the struggle for supremacy between Buddhism and Brahmanism. [ 7 ]
The Dalit Panthers is a social organisation that seeks to combat caste discrimination. It was led by a group of Mahar writers and poets, including Raja Dhale, Namdeo Dhasal, and J. V. Pawar in some time between the second and the third semester of 1972. [a] It was founded as a response to the growing discontent among the Dalit youth during the ...
Baburao Bagul (1930–2008) was a pioneer of Dalit writings in Marathi. [32] His first collection of stories, Jevha Mi Jat Chorali (जेव्हा मी जात चोरली) (When I Concealed My Caste), published in 1963, created a stir in Marathi literature with its passionate depiction of a cruel society and thus brought in new ...
Pune, Maharashtra, India. Nationality. Indian. Notable work. Majya Jalmachi Chittarkatha. Children. Arun Krushnaji Kamble. Shantabai Krushnaji Kamble (1 March 1923 – 25 January 2023) was an Indian Marathi writer and Dalit activist. She wrote the first female Dalit autobiography.
Namdeo Dhasal, Marathi poet and writer from Maharashtra [48] Neerav Patel, first Dalit poet to write poetry in English [49] Om Prakash Valmiki, Hindi poet and writer [50] P. Sivakami, Dalit-feminist Tamil writer [51] Yashica Dutt, Indian writer and journalist [52] Manoranjan Byapari, Bengali writer, Activist and chairman of west Bengal Dalit ...
Mooknayak. Mooknayak (Marathi: मूकनायक; lit. "the Leader of Voiceless" or "The Hero of the Dumb") was a Marathi fortnightly-Newspaper founded by B. R. Ambedkar in 1920. [7] The newspaper aimed to reveal the pain and rebellion of society. [8] The first issue of Mooknayak was published on 31 January 1920. This paper was published ...