LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 11 : 6 June 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

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A Comparative Study of Baby Kamble’s The Prisons We Broke and
Bama’s Karukku


Banshelkikar Yashpal Murhari, Ph.D. Scholar

Comparison of Two Dalit Autobiographies of Women Writers

The present paper compares two Dalit women writers’ autobiographies entitled The Prisons We Broke from Maharashtra and Karukku from Tamil Nadu. Both the books focus on the degradation and inhuman treatment of the Dalit community brought about by the Hindu caste institution. Caste division is a creation of Hinduism and its perpetuation is based on the caste consciousness, which has been so deeply entrenched that no Indian in general, and no Hindu (including the Dalit) in particular, has been able to get rid of it. Both the books focus also on how the Dalits converted to other religions are still subjected to subordination, etc.

Baby Kamble’s book was published in the year 1986 in Marathi and later on it was translated and published in English in 2008. Bama’s Karukku was published in the year 1992 in Tamil, and then translated into English and published in the year of 2000. The Prisons We Broke has twelve chapters in total. The chapters do not have titles as such, and they are written with figures like 1, 2, 3, and 4, etc. Karukku contains nine chapters. Like The Prisons We Broke, its individual chapters are not written under any particular titles. They are written in words such as One, Two, Three, and And Four and so on and so forth. Both are in the mould of autobiography and present the personal life history of these two authors.

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Banshelkikar Yashpal Murhari, Ph.D. Research Scholar
Department of English
Pondicherry University
Pondicherry 605014
Union Territory of Puducherry
India
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