• Dr. Vinod K Chopra
• Ritika Khanna

Dalit Literature expresses Dalit pain so poignantly that one wonders if human being can hate fellow human beings in such a ghastly way. Dalit writers give words to the traumatic life of their brethren not to create sympathy in the heart of their reader. Rather, they have given a very brave account of their struggle against heavy odds that fall in their life only for being Dalits. In their struggle to rise in life they came across physical as well as mental persecution in their life because success and failure depended on the caste to which one belonged. They were suppressed and were not allowed to raise their voice against any discrimination and beastly treatment was meted out to them. In Dalit short stories their painful experiences with the people of upper caste expose the hypocrisy on the part of those who belong to upper castes. In the stories selected for detailed study reflect how Dalits go through various experiences that inflict violence, humiliation and suppression in one or the other ways. The women belonging to upper castes are depicted as insensitive, selfish, narcissist bodies that lure Dalit youth and become the cause of catastrophic devastation of the entire Dalit community.

Dalit, trauma, humiliation, hypocrisy, experience, devastation

"Dalit Men versus Upper Caste Women: Stories of Demeaning Experiences", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 9, page no.b287-b296, September-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2109135.pdf

"Dalit Men versus Upper Caste Women: Stories of Demeaning Experiences", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 9, page no. ppb287-b296, September-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2109135.pdf