Joothan om prakash valmiki6/4/2023 A document of the long-silenced and long-denied sufferings of the Dalits, Joothan is a major contribution to the archives of Dalit history and a manifesto for the revolutionary transformation of society and human consciousness. Valmiki shares his heroic struggle to survive a preordained life of perpetual physical and mental persecution and his transformation into a speaking subject under the influence of the great Dalit political leader, B. Although untouchability was abolished in 1949, Dalits continued to face discrimination, economic deprivation, violence, and ridicule. Though one autobiographical character remains the locus, the stories of. India's untouchables have been forced to accept and eat joothan for centuries, and the word encapsulates the pain, humiliation, and poverty of a community forced to live at the bottom of India's social pyramid. Story of one Dalit life provides an insight to the lives of many other Dalit people. "Joothan" refers to scraps of food left on a plate, destined for the garbage or animals. 10, Issue2, JulDec 2021 6366 IASET OMPRAKASH VALMIKI’S JOOTHAN: A SURVEY OF A DALIT’S MISERABLE LIFE Virendra Kumar1&Dr. Omprakash Valmikis Joothan identifies itself as a part of Dalit literature and makes him as a writer of Dalit consciousness. Omprakash Valmiki describes his life as an untouchable, or Dalit, in the newly independent India of the 1950s.
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