Vol. 6, Issue 8, Part B (2020)

Abstract
In an era where human rights and awareness of Dalits are pervasive issues, literary depictions of the experiences of marginalised groups of people have gained exceptional importance. The recent explode in Dalit literature is an effort to bring the experiences of caste discrimination, poverty agony, violence and subjugation faced by the marginalised sections. These experiences have been silenced and marginalised as unliterary. The growing corpus of Dalit texts including autobiographies, novels and poetry seeks to ratify this truth while describing the nuances of Dalit cultures. These texts which have for centuries been relegated to the margins, offer a challenge to literary aesthetics, with its Caste and Gender bias, has for long been masquerading as universal.