Portrayal of Religious view in Select Dalit Novels

The privileged Brahmin was treated with high respect and had the superior power in hand and the less privileged Dalits were treated equal to animals and mere slaves. Vedas are ruling the Hindu religion even now and the Brahmins considered themselves as pure and Gods people which were totally done on the basis of the karma and dharma done in the previous birth. They considered the Dalits as impure and low by birth. The Brahmin speaks about ‘punarjanma’ which mean‘re-birth’ and they propose a rule towards the Dalit and make them believe that their situation as a slave is due to the adharma done by them in the previous birth and they have to obey the Brahmins and do all the odd jobs imposed to them in order to attain a prosperous birth next time. 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. Education refined the minds of the Dalits and made them think and not to remain subjugated in terms of inequality and domination in the name of Caste and religion. The proposition of the paper will deal with the religious view depicted in two novels Hindu (2010) (ii) Untouchable God (2011).