The Interface of Caste, Class, and Gender: Insights from Urmila Pawar's The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman's Memoir

A prominent work in the Dalit feminist writing genre, Urmila Pawar's The Weave of My Life makes artful use of the memoir to share the personal and collective traumas of caste-based oppression faced by women of Dalit. The primary intent of the paper is to examine how the unholy nexus of caste, class, and gender perpetuates the triple oppression of Dalit women. At the same time, it also highlights how Dalit women suffer both under Brahmanical and Dalit Patriarchy. The paper highlights the transformative and empowering potential of education. Besides, it also examines how the author negotiated the multiple forms of Dalit oppression to survive and thrive in a hostile environment dominated by casteism.