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It is not only the story of his life but his entire community. It is the only Hindi Dalit autobiography which has been translated into English. Arun Prabha Mukherjee has translated it into English in 2003. Joothan is the first Dalit autobiography in Hindi. Omprakash Valmiki’s Joothan (1996) has become a saga of Dalit consciousness representing the annals of suffering, humiliation, mental anguish, self-realization, rebellion, retaliation, and rehabilitation that are the life spirit of Dalit literature.

It has startled not only the Dalits but also the upper caste people of India when they came across the lives of the Dalits caught in a rigid, hypocritical, and orthodox Indian society. Dalits have used autobiography as a genre in a unique way to tell not only their personal experiences but of their entire society across India.ĭalit autobiography has become an important organ of the Dalit movement across India especially in Maharashtra and North India. Autobiography is an interesting and vital genre of literature vastly used by stalwarts of the human society. They have depicted in their works the untold miseries of human atrocities through poetry, drama, short story, novel and autobiography. These principles inspired the new generation of the Dalit writers.

The literature written by them has gone a long way in propagating the principles of equality, liberty, fraternity, and compassion for the Dalits. Download this page in Resisting Caste in Om Prakash Valmiki’s Joothanĭalits have started to raise their voices against social, economic, cultural and political oppression.