...Toral Jatin Gajarawala A product of the last two decades, Dalit (“untouchable caste”) literature in Hindi has fashioned itself as a modern protest literature, drawing on the cultural and political traditions of other Indian languages and literatures. But Hindi Dalit literature is unique in that its...

... Gajara- wala describes a contemporary Dalit realism in India that bypasses the language of bourgeois sympathy and consciousness- raising on the way to imagining collective social action. Gajarawala runs her genealogical lines back to the pre – World War II era of colonial writing, tracking...

..., or ignorance.The word is the mostla frequentlyvt-frite’ used in Riviere’s vocabulary, especially in the phrase “la conquste de Yet la we v&rite.” note that he uses interchangeably the words and la vkrite’ la dalite’, Ze vrai and ByZe truthrtel he .*does not mean metaphysical truth...

... of the Indian subcontinent; the comparative work on Dalit fiction; the novels about and around the Biafran civil war; the ongoing and deep engagement with South African apartheid; more recent comparative studies of Anglophone, Tamil, and Sinhalese fiction on the civil war in Sri Lanka; and the language politics...