Abstract
The ‘mainstream’ culture in India evolved around Savarna discourses nourished by the caste ideology. Caste ideologies were successfully manipulated to establish Brahminic hegemony and dalit voices were relegated as the ‘other’. Sharankumar Limbale’s autobiography The Outcaste critiques the hegemonic caste system that legitimizes exploitations of the Mahars of Maharashtra. It records the author’s assertion from an illegitimate child to an established writer with dalit consciousnesses. This article, in the light of Gramscian thoughts, focuses on Limblae’s registration of protest and projection of alternative socio-cultural life of the Mahars as dalit cultural strategy of resistance and subversion of the ‘mainstream’ culture.
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Limblae’s registration of protest and projection of alternative socio-cultural life of the Mahars as dalit cultural strategy of resistance and subversion of the ‘mainstream’ culture
This paper focuses on Limblae’s registration of protest and projection of socio-cultural life of the Mahars from the Gramscian point of view to understand the dalit cultural strategy of resistance and subversion of the Sharankumar Limbale’s (1st June, 1956) autobiography Akkarmashi (1984), written in Marathi, was translated into English by Santosh Bhoomkar in 2003 and was published by the Oxford University Press with the title The Outcaste
Limbale’s miserable life of an untouchable, half-caste, and impoverished man, is a testimonio of community struggles in general. It reflects on the conditions of the Mahars about half a century back and at the same time gives a true and realistic picture of the darker side of the Gramscian concept of ‘subalternity’ denotes the subordination of a group or groups of people by other group or groups
Summary
Limblae’s registration of protest and projection of alternative socio-cultural life of the Mahars as dalit cultural strategy of resistance and subversion of the ‘mainstream’ culture. Sharankumar Limbale’s autobiography The Outcaste critiques the hegemonic caste system that legitimizes exploitations of the Mahars of Maharashtra.
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