Volume III Special Issue IV April 2023

Name of Author : Ms. A Princy, Dr. S Latharani

Title of the paper : Dalit Women: A Minority within a Minority

Abstract: Dalits are the lowest and the oppressed class of the Indian Caste system. Their lives are full of oppression, insults, pain, and anguish in addition to financial suffering they have to bare the insults of being treated as outcasts. In patriarchy, men consider themselves as a superior power in the family and try to restrict women in all forms. As Dalits are considered inferior to the higher caste people, Dalit men treated Dalit women as lower to them. Dalit women are considered lower human beings and they are doubly oppressed. Dalit literature is nothing but the literary expression of the pains, trials, and tribulations of the Dalits who are victims of social, economic, and cultural inequality. In caste-based Indian society, marginalized people undergo untold suffering. In the case of Dalit women, it is still worse than Dalit womens writings, especially autobiographies, give a true account of the problems faced by women, being a Dalit women.

Keywords : Dalit women writers, Autobiographies, Casteism, Patriarchy, Double oppression

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Page Number : 71-73