EXCLUSION AND EXPLOITATION IN SHARANKUMAR LIMBALE’S THE OUTCASTE

Abstract [English]

Sharankumar Limbale exposes the exclusions and exploitations of Dalits in his personal narrative, The Outcaste. As a Dalit, he witnessed the caste political system, the sufferings, mental agony, social exclusions, sexual exploitation, spiritual atrocities, macro and small level discriminations within the caste based Indian society. He narrates however Mahars are being inhumanly treated by the caste Hindus in his narrative. Dalits are accepting untouchable practices in several places. They are created to easily believe that discrimination is confirmed and conjointly to be obeyed. However, Limbale realizes that education is the drugs for all varieties of social diseases. When obtaining education, he came out of the clutches of that society and vivified the hurdles that he featured in his life as an Outcaste. This paper solely focuses on exclusions and exploitation at each levels of dalits’ life.