Dalit ‘literature from below’ towards democratic consciousness

This paper especially focussing on the genre of Dalit literature from below discusses about how and why such tradition of dalit is. … It tries to analyse as to what extent these Dalit literature from below has influenced both Dalit and mainstream conceptualisations of dalit identity and Indian society and to state how dalit writers struggled to carve out authority to speak in the Hindi public sphere. It also tries to analyse how over the years, literature in the form of booklets and pamphlets produced and disseminated by Dalits have been serving as a means of forming and spreading a new kind of democracy among the Dalits. The literature is essentially against exploitation, and made use of writing as a method of propaganda for the movement.