International Journal in Management & Social Science

Dalit writing, embraces the social & cultural functionality of the changing metaphors of ‘Caste’ in Contemporary India. Caste has continued to slip the collective nationalist(s) memory, where writing from the margins seems to convince the global consequences for all the marginalized groups, around the world, contesting and resisting the varied strategies of domination and discrimination, through the medium of writing across the various disciplines of social sciences. Dalit writing embraces the complexity of the sociology of cultures, even sub-cultural and regional variants dealing with the legacy of Pain and Humiliation, reconsidered for the readerly experiences. The paper strives to examine the role of the marginal writings, bonding the Dalit identity among the various writers across different Indian laguages and regions. The paper also examines the foundational legacy of the humiliation, entrenched in the socio-cultural metaphors, icons of marginalization, and the symbols of Dalit subordination, since scores of centuries. It traces the development of the extraordinary repertoire of stereotypical Caste-idioms across various regional and lingustic Regions, Caste-symbols, and Casteist gestures of verbal and physical denigration of the Dalits over centuries. Dalit writing restructures the mainstream sociological and cultural aesthetics, exploring the constructedness of the negated ‘self’ of a lived social community. Dalit conciousness in the wake of Contemporary Indian reality, results out of the myriad challenges registered through the modules of the contestations, discourses through the writing by margins, such as translations, literary and cultural approaches, involving the various Indian langauges, restoring the growth of the awakened Dalit conciousness in the postglobalized ambience. Dalit writing, embraces the social & cultural functionality of the element of the changing metaphors of ‘Caste’ in Contemporary India.