BAMA’S PERSPECTIVE ON GENDER AND CASTE DISCRIMINATION IN SANGATI

Abstract

This paper examines the ways in which gender and caste serve as instruments of double oppression within the Dalit community. Being a woman and belonging to the lowest community are two facets of Dalit women’s difficulties. They are thus subject to double oppression. Dalit literary works focus on the the oppression of the weaker by the stronger, or the sufferings of the “oppressed class,” are as old as mankind. Caste and gender issues are brought to light by Bama, both within and outside the community. Bama critiques the sexual harassment that upper-caste men subject Dalit women to outside of their homes and the cruelty that Dalit males inflict on them at home. As a Dalit woman author, Bama draws attention to the different problems and challenges that Dalit women encounter in her book Sangati, including discrimination, illiteracy, sexual exploitation, inequality, and injustices. In order to depict the ordinary existence of Dalit women, Bama used a variety of incidents from their own community’s everyday life.

Keywords

dalit literature, caste discrimination, gender discrimination, sufferings, oppression.

Works Cited

Bama. Sangati. Trans. Lakshmi Holmstrom. Oxford University Press, University of Oxford, England, 2005.

Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Seabury Press, New York, USA, 1970.

To cite this article

Muthulakshmi, B. (2024). Bama’s Perspective on Gender and Caste Discrimination in Sangati. Sparkling International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research Studies, 7(3), 21-25.