Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Pramanik, Shyamal Kumar
• Acharya, Indranil

Titel

Dalit Literature

Ist Teil von

• Selected Writings of Anil Gharai, 2024, p.113-122

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Dalit Literature is a distinctive part of Indian literature. The present chapter tries to portray a comprehensive history of Dalit Literature along with its essential features. In order to find out the origin of Dalit literature, the chapter highlights the Dalit Movements in nineteenth- and twentieth-century India. It shows how Dr. Ambedkar was instrumental in organising these movements and acted as the chief inspiration to the Dalit writers. Since Dalit writers, who formed Dalit Panther Movement, were influenced by the Black Panther Movement, a brief comparative discussion on Black American Literature and Indian Dalit Literature is also included here. Finally, the chapter vividly portrays the history and development of Dalit Literature in Maharashtra and West Bengal.