A systematic caste colonization and Brahmin patriarchy dislocated the very cultural existence of Valmiki community in Uttar Pradesh. The focal point of this paper is to examine, with the help of Omprakash Valmiki's Dalit autobiography, Joothan, how the caste atrocity for centuries has engineered the disruption and brought a state of social collapse to the Dalit ethnic world. Deliberately constructed caste system is the foundation of inhumanity and societal violence in India.
In India, fourth world is a world of deprived community born out of varna system. Social stratification has been studied quite elaborately in India, whose society is more fragmented than that of any other nation. The indigenous and 'traditional states' have evolved as 'nation states' with the consolidation of centralized control of the means of political, cultural, societal, religious, race and caste hegemony and violence.
Undeniably his writing is not a stuff of potboiler but proves to be a better medium to create consciousness in the society.įourth world literature and reality have come in dialogues with the mainstream paradoxes across the world. Omprakash Valmiki takes the smugness to bring out the marginalized issues into the world where the mainstream writers seldom mentioned the kind of turmoil in their works dealing with caste. Dalit Studies are a rare glimpse that very few talk about it and dare enough to write. This is due to an "intimidate syndrome" a natural outcome that a Dalit is always surrounded by. In general, a Dalit tries not to divulge his identity as Dalit in the midst of "others", but expresses his anger in clandestine space. His autobiography emphasizes the significance of literature by endowing the platform in spreading the knowledge about Dalit lives and their individual experience in this civil society.
Being human one must have autonomy, deference and sanctuary but for Valmiki, it stood as a threat in the midst of the dominant elements of society.
Today his voice has been well recognized, and it stands as a robust right for his society He describes "his" experience as a Dalit, and the twinge that he underwent throughout his lifetime. He took Dalit literature in his hand as a gizmo to carry out his anguish as a communal trauma of his community. "Joothan: A Dalit's Life" is respectively chosen for the research as it brings out the malicious veracity of Dalit's life in an authentic way. The major focus of this piece of writing is to bring to the light the voice of an empowered writer Omprakash Valmiki.
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