Sharankumar Limbale’s The Outcaste: A Narration of the Complexities of Caste System
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MANISHA DEVI
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- Keywords:
- Dalit literature, Caste discrimination, Autobiography, Social marginalization, Educational inequality, Identity and oppression
- Abstract
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This present paper “Sharankumar Limbale: The Outcaste: A Narration of the
Complexities of Caste System” demonstrates the sufferings of Dalit community in every field of
life. Sharankumar Limbale, who is a Mahar is one among the most renowned Dalit writers.
Here, we will discuss about his autobiography The Outcaste (2004), which is written in Marathi
language and translated into Hindi, Kannada, Punjabi, Tamil and Malayalam languages. This
book caught the attention of readers on its English version by Santhosh Bhoomkar. He got many
awards and won the wider acclaim from the public for his literary talents. Limbale describes the
problems faced by Dalit children in getting education under psychological disturbances. For
them, Caste discrimination is an everyday experience. School and education system is no
exception of this kind of discrimination. - Downloads
- Published
- 2016-04-01
- Issue
- Vol. 5 No. 2 (2016)
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- Articles