Portraying the Religious and Caste Discrimination: A Critical Study of SharankumarLimbale’s novel Hindu

Journal Title: International Journal of Research in Social Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 12

Abstract

All the genres of Dalit literature express the authentic form of writing it is much forceful portraying the city life with realistic description of violence and vulgarity. Some writing speaks about the fights of the Dalit against the British Raj, conversion of religion, fight against the caste Hindus with the leader Ambedkar.Dalit Sahitya started with the movement literature with polemical books, biographies, folk songs, poems, street plays, publishing small booklets about Buddha and Ambedkar. The Essays of Ambedkar brought about a great change in the hearts and minds of the Dalits. The works of Ambedkar was translated into different languages to evoke the self-assertion in the Dalits and not be as inferior to the upper-caste in the daily life and to abolish the caste was the aim of Ambedkar.Social exploitation is the root cause for the emergence of the Dalit revolution in the country. The preposition of the paper is to bring out the religious and caste based atrocities on Dalits by the upper caste people. The novel Hindu depicts the violence, hatred, vengeance and religious rivalries of the upper caste on the Dalits is brought out in this paper.

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Dr. U. S. Saranya

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Dr. U. S. Saranya (2017). Portraying the Religious and Caste Discrimination: A Critical Study of SharankumarLimbale’s novel Hindu. International Journal of Research in Social Sciences, 7(12), -. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-20695