LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 15:6 June 2015
ISSN 1930-2940

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Assertion of Self:
A Reading of Selected Marathi Dalit Poets

Santosh Bahadur Singh, Ph.D.
Shubhanku Kochar, M.Phil., Ph.D. Scholar


Abstract

This paper is devoted to analyse the selected poems by Marathi Dalit poets who incorporate frustration, depression, irritation, etc., in their poems as the emerging themes. The paper identifies how in post-Ambedkarian era, Dalits have tried to assert their identity in various quarters of life: politics, religion, education and economics.

Key words: Manusmriti, Dalit literature, Ambedkar, Self-identity, religious structure

Meaning of Self within Hindu Tradition

To begin with, it is important first to understand the meaning of the Self which varies from culture to culture and circumstances to circumstances. The Vedic tradition, which is dominant even today, takes Self as holy, free from all the bondages, caste, creed, race and gender. It is unaffected by any natural and physical obstacle, it is immortal, and mover of body. If it comes out from the gross body, all five elements which constitute the body, amalgamate it in nature and the soul acquires a new garb. To quote from the Bhagvad Gita:

vasamsi jirnani yatha vihaya
navani grihnati naro parani
tatha sarirani vihaya jiranny
anyani samayati navani dehi

Just as a person casts off worn-out garments and puts on others that are new, even so does the embodied soul cast off worn-out bodies and take on others that are new. (Krishnan 108)

This is only the beginning part of the article. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE IN PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION.

S.B. Singh, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Lady Irwin College
Delhi University
New Delhi 110001
India
sbsingh9@gmail.com

Shubhanku Kochar, M.Phil., Ph.D. Scholar
Assistant Professor
Lady Irwin College
Delhi University
New Delhi 110001
India
shubhankukochar@gmail.com

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