Abstract
The increasing visibility of dalit women in academia, literature and activism, has rendered the existing frameworks of mainstream Indian feminism and Dalit Politics as inadequate in exploring the concerns of dalit women. In mainstream Indian feminism and Dalit Politics, prevalence is given only to the concerns of “gender” and “caste.” They see caste and gender as two individual and mutually exclusive systems wherein dalit women are accommodated as either ‘women’ or ‘dalit’. The fact that dalit women’s oppression results simultaneously from the interrelated systems of caste and gender, remains completely ignored. Such ignorance necessitates a new framework suited to study the cause of dalit women. Emphasising that dalit women, the primary constituencies of Dalit Feminism, are located at the cusp of caste and gender, this paper aims to provide a theoretical frame to Dalit Feminism that calls for a radical rethinking of the viability of feminist and anti-caste epistemologies in exploring the cause of dalit women.
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