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Representation of Dalit Women in Literature:
A Reading of Chauti Bhint (The Fourth Wall)

Aneesa Farooq and Ahsan Ul Haq


Urmila Pawar
Courtesy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urmila_Pawar

Abstract

What is Dalit literature? How are Dalit women represented in Dalit literature? Is there any difference between Dalit male writing and Dalit female writings? The present paper proposes to focus on questions like these, with special reference to a short story titled Chauti Bhint (The Fourth Wall).

Keywords: Urmila Pawar, Chauti Bhint (The Fourth Wall); Dalit Literature; Representation.

1. Introduction

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar famously wrote in Annihilation of Caste (1936) “You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build a nation; you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the foundations of caste will crack and never be a whole”. Dalit Literature is the voice of the oppressed community, seeking justice on the name of caste from the centuries. Authors rising from caste backgrounds are coming forward to engage in this rapidly increasing literary genre.

The portrayal of Dalit characters has always remained a sensitive issue in literature. Dalit Literature is a literature of resistance, which primarily focuses on the exclusion and marginalization of oppressed communities like Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribes and other backward castes, and is fighting for harsh reality of caste system in India. Dalit literature is the voice of all oppressed communities who challenge the rigidity of caste system and demand equality. Dalit literature represents the bitter lived experiences of Dalit’s, who are victims of so-called upper classes.

Urmila Pawar (1945--) was born in the village of Ratnagiri, Phansawale district, in the Konkan Maharashtra. She pursued her M.A. from Bombay University and served in the Maharashtra government's social protection department for many years.

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Aneesa Farooq
Research Scholar, Department of Linguistics
University of Kashmir

Ahsan Ul Haq Magray
Assistant Professor
GDC Dangiwacha Baramulla
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