• Kavya.B

The present paper titled “Traces of Split Personality and Alienation in Daya Pawar’s Baluta” discusses on the plights of Daya Pawar’s split personality and traumas of alienation he suffered due to caste system in our society. Daya Pawar’s Baluta’ is credited as the first Dalit autobiography in Marathi. Dalit autobiographies mirror the realities of untouchability. There is a common cry for self-assertion and it gains its momentum when solution is emerged by their experiences. It depicts the hardships of untouchables in the dire poverty and inhuman practices set against them. There is even the influence of Ambedkarite movements and his idealism. According to Nimbale, “Dalit autobiographies are used to narrate the Dalit experience. These narratives seek to capture the authentic Dalit experience through a minute chronicling of the smallest detail of daily life in a language that is crude, impure and uncivil. It is as if, by capturing each detail of daily life in a language that is the opposite of the language of upper caste literature, the Dalit writer will convey the essence of Dalitness.”

Dalit autobiography, split personality, alienation, Untouchability.

"Traces of Split Personality and Alienation in Daya Pawar’s Baluta", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.262-266, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905140.pdf

"Traces of Split Personality and Alienation in Daya Pawar’s Baluta", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp262-266, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905140.pdf