Locating Ingenuity in the Portrayal of Dalit Consciousness through the Marginal Life in Premchand's the Shroud

Anirban Bose

doi:10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i04.4397

Locating Ingenuity in the Portrayal of Dalit Consciousness through the Marginal Life in Premchand's the Shroud

Author(s)	Anirban Bose
Country	India
Abstract	Dalit writing accommodates the social and cultural practices of the ever-changing metaphors of ‘Caste’ in Contemporary India. It embraces the critical intimacy of the sociology of cultures, even sub-cultural and regional variants dealing with the hereditament of ache and humiliation, reconsidered for the readerly experience. This paper attempts to scrutinize the gray areas in portraying Dalits and their class consciousness by Premchand (1880-1936) in his short story ‘The Shroud’ (Kafan). This short story is a translated version of the source text ‘Kafan’; there is a channel of significant discussion about the importance of communicating the voices and languages of the oppressed and those who are at the periphery. The issue of reception in the translation process is prevalent. Dalit literature has not remained untouched beyond the influence of globalization. Dalit writing revamps the mainstream sociological and cultural aesthetics, exploring the construction of the negated ‘self’ of a lived social community. Dalits were made imperceptible from mainstream art and literature. Sometimes they are presented merely as an object of ridicule, as Gheesu and Madhav are portrayed in the short story ‘The Shroud’ (Kafan). The characterization of Dalits by Premchand is not considered to be part of mainstream literature. It is truly dismal that a short story like ‘The Shroud’ is from the pen of a literary figure that cannot be justified or either classified in a class, who himself is a class apart. It is not obvious that always the subaltern cannot speak, though their sincere representation is often more accentuated in the regional dialects, rather than in Indian writings in English. Premchand is talking more about post-colonial exploitation rather than Dalit class consciousness.
Keywords	Dalit consciousness, colonial exploitation, Dalit resistance, subaltern resistance
Field	Sociology > Linguistic / Literature
Published In	Volume 5, Issue 4, July-August 2023
Published On	2023-07-15
Cite This	Locating Ingenuity in the Portrayal of Dalit Consciousness through the Marginal Life in Premchand's the Shroud - Anirban Bose - IJFMR Volume 5, Issue 4, July-August 2023. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i04.4397
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i04.4397
Short DOI	https://doi.org/gshm92

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