• Solanki Parul

Dalit literature is relevant to understand the nature and society of the Gujarat and Maharashtra in India. The present paper strives to study B. Kesharshivam’s The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth and Namdeo Nimgade’s In the Tiger’s Shadows from the praxis of the hegemonic social and political forces by the distinctiveness of the other discourse, which ignores the struggles, trauma, and literary sufferings of the Dalit people. Trauma and Sufferings are not only simply representing in dalit autobiographies but also associating with the social movement that brings to change as an assertion of hopes and ambitions of the society in which Kesharshivam and Nimgade express their experiences in the most realistic way by using their sensitivity. Dalit autobiographies in Marathi and Gujarati come out a spate during the social-political movement of Dalit literature itself such as B. Kesharshivan’s The Whole Truth and nothing but the Truth and Namdeo Nimgade’s In the Tiger’s Shadows explain issues of trauma, struggles, and sufferings through their characters being Dalit in the society.

Dalit Autobiography, Trauma, Self-identity, Otherness, Communities

"Depiction of Trauma and Suffering in Selected Dalit Autobiographies ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 8, page no.e681-e688, August-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2108571.pdf

"Depiction of Trauma and Suffering in Selected Dalit Autobiographies ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 8, page no. ppe681-e688, August-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2108571.pdf