TOWARDS EMPOWERMENT OF SELF AND QUEST FOR IDENTITY: TRANSCENDING STEREOTYPES IN DALIT WOMEN CONSCIOUSNESS

Abstract

This paper sets out to delineate the process empowerment and emancipation of Dalit women as represented in Dalit literature and real life arming them with a set of tools and devices which eventually enable them to dismantle and shred asunder the long pitched standard stereotypes and prejudices of a patriarchal   social set up mired in caste discrimination class and gender differences. Along with the presentation of hellish life of Dalit women the paper brings to fore the gradual horizontal This paper sets out to delineate the process of empowerment and emancipation of Dalit women as represented in Dalit literature and real life while arming them with the set of tools and devices which eventually enabled them to dismantle the long pitched  standard stereotypes and prejudices of a patriarchal and vertical progression both in content and methods of empowerment of dalit woman.