Bama’s Sangati: A Significant Contribution to Dalit Writing in India

By : Rajoo Kumar Ram

Page No: 41-46

Abstract
Bama Faustina Soosai Raj is a modern Dalit woman fiction writer, who is commonly known as Bama in the field of Indian Writing in English in general and Dalit Writing in particular. She has to her credit a number of great works, describing the Dalit woman sentiments, their plights and persecutions in the hands of patriarchal society as well as the Upper-class society where the Dalit and the deserted have a little say in all the spheres of life. Her autobiographical work, Karukku (1992) is an autobiographical novel dealing with the struggles of women character in a male dominated society under the sky of caste-ridden mentality. Her famous work, Sangati (1992), is the other great work which deals with the sufferings and deep distresses of the Dalit women, who have to face the double disadvantage of caste and gender discrimination. This book presents a very realistic picture of poverty, impoverishment, malnutrition and some other social evils suffered by the Dalit women of the society. The present paper is devoted to a critical study of the various issues of Dalit woman characters through the lens of Bama who has herself felt and experienced all these sufferings.

Author
Rajoo Kumar Ram, Research Scholar, Dept. of English, J. P. University, Chapra.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/POET.2026.39.01.5