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VOL. 7, ISSUE 4 (2021)
An eruption of agony on the violation of human rights in Siddalingaiah’s ‘Ooru Keri’ and Vasant moon’s ‘Basti’
Authors
Sahebrao P Kamble, Rajpalsingh S Chikhalikar
Abstract
Human Rights are the hall mark of deprived society in the 20th century. The Dalit writers initiated to fight against many social issues including Casteism, Gender discrimination, racism and slavery which are always imposed by the dominant class in India. Due to long struggle given by great Dalit human rights activist Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar by incorporating human rights in the Indian constitution, many suppressed voices started expressing the atrocities they experienced. This outburst, like the black literature, is also found in Dalit literature. The Dalit literature along with its autobiographical narratives stands up against the violation of all human rights. It focuses on the outcome of a long drawn repression and agony of the Dalits by the feudal system. The present study undertakes two Dalit autobiographical narratives from different linguistic background written by Siddalingaiah and Vasant Moon as both of them have eye witnessed the injustice done to the Dalit community they lived in and expressed severe pain experienced by them and their communities. The narratives by showing the upheaval do not try to prove violence as solutions for the Dalit misery instead portrays how deprivation can lead to violence and confirm grounds for the Dalit identity in the macrocosmic world. Their solutions to the issues they presented seem to be very holistic and humanistic
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Pages:20-23
How to cite this article:
Sahebrao P Kamble, Rajpalsingh S Chikhalikar "An eruption of agony on the violation of human rights in Siddalingaiah’s <em>‘Ooru Keri’</em> and Vasant moon’s <em>‘Basti’</em> ". International Journal of English Research, Vol 7, Issue 4, 2021, Pages 20-23
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