A Study on the Evolution of the Telugu Dalit Literature

Dalit literature considers man as its nucleus. It becomes one with the joys and sorrows of human life and takes it forward to Samyak revolution. It preaches a group of human being that forms society, equality. It considers man noble. Dalit literature spreads love and not enmity among human beings. Lack of knowledge made the Dalits to believe the Brahmins and the Brahmins made them believe that the only God who will help them attain salvation is Brahmins so they have to obey them and follow their words and should consider them equal to God. Dalit are denied to enjoy the mankind's basic needs and rights such as food, shelter, clothing and they have to depend on the dominant class to do all the agricultural and other labour work in order to have their livelihood. Dalit literature as a literature of protest advocates human liberation, glorifies man, opposes staunchly the supremacy of lineage, race and caste. Dalits had only pen to fight back they used it as a weapon to express their feeling. The proposition of the paper will deal with the emergence of the Telugu Dalit literature as the Dalit writers through various genres express their pain, discrimination, poverty, pitiful life, and the domination.