• Dharmendra Singh
• Dr Pradeep Singh

In India, still, we have continued the age-old social evil of castes hierarchy or castes hegemony. We have caste difference that deliberately generates the sense of superiority or inferiority, primary and secondary, high castes and low castes, touchable and untouchables, subjugator and subjugated, exploiter and exploited. We are religiously obliged to accept the castes hierarchy i.e. Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Shudras and the lowest untouchables. This paper is an attempt to expose the prevalent social and religious evil of ‘untouchability’ and Dalit’s transformations from submissive rejection to aggressive resistance through Laxman Gaikwad’s The Branded and the most celebrated Man Booker Prize-winning novel The God of Small Things. Gaikwad and Arundhati Roy have explicitly represented incidents and illustrations of atrocities on Dalits which sensitise Dalit castes and make them conscious about their obnoxious life of subjugation and exploitation. The consciousness of the same agony of subjugation and exploitation paves the way for aggressive Dalit resistance to counter the injustice and humiliation of human beings, who is socio-culturally oppressed and marginalised.

Dalit, untouchables, subjugation, consciousness, rejection, resistance

"From Rejection to Resistance: Portrayal of Dalits in Laxman Gaikwad‘s The Branded and Arundhati Roys The God of Small Things", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 4, page no.1284-1289, April-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1804433.pdf

"From Rejection to Resistance: Portrayal of Dalits in Laxman Gaikwad‘s The Branded and Arundhati Roys The God of Small Things", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 4, page no. pp1284-1289, April-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1804433.pdf