Contents: Introduction. 1. Literature of their own: Dalit literary theory in Indian context/Darshana Trivedi. 2. Chokhamela: the pioneer of Untouchable Movement in Maharashtra/B.S. Nimavat. 3. Dalitism: its growth and evaluation/S.K. Paul. 4. Dalit feminism: a psycho-social analysis of Indian English Literature/Anita Ghosh. 5. Dalit Literature and Dalit poetry: a brief survey/S.K. Paul. 6. Distinctive voices of distress/D. Padmarani. 7. Outcast in Tagore's poetry/M.B. Gaijan. 8. From erasure to assertion: the Othered and Unempowered in Mulk Raj Anand/Sunita Sinha. 9. Quest for disentanglement with reference to Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable and Coolie/T.S. Ramesh. 10. Jim Corbett: From man eaters to mankind/S.S. Bhandari. 11. Gujarati Dalit Poetry/Pathik Paramar. 12. Reversing centrality and marginality: Gujarati Dalit Literature vs. Gujarati Dalit Literature/Rupalee Burke. 13. Gujarati Dalit Poetry: origin and development/Harish Mangalam. 14. Gujarati Dalit Literature--an overview/Dushyant Nimavat. 15. History and recurring themes of short story in Gujarati Dalit Literature/Ami U. Upadhyay. 16. Dalit in "The God of Small Things"/M.B. Gaijan. 17. Dalits: the silence of the Marginalised and the oppressed/Shibu Simon and Sijo Varghese C. 18. Pity and plight of the Dalit and the defenceless in "The God of Small Things"/Amar Nath Prasad. 19. Dalit Literature: a critical overview/S.K. Paul. 20. Narendra Jadhav's outcaste: a memoir a saga of positive search for excellence/Satish Barbuddhe. 21. Gujarati Dalit Novel Shosh: A study in connection with Psychodynamics of women/M.B. Gaijan. Contributors. Index.
"Dalit Literature : A Critical Exploration is an anthology of critical research papers contributed by different scholars hailing from the different parts of India. It contains more than twenty scholarly papers dealing with the various aspects of Dalit Literature.
The book will certainly slake the thirst of those teachers, research scholars and general readers who want to be more familiar with the various aspects of Dalit Literature in India." (jacket)
