INTERSECTIONAL PERSECUTION OF DALIT WOMEN IN THE SELECTED DALIT AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

<p>In Indian society, women occupy a peripheral position. Being not allowed to take part<br>in any formal decisions on her own, she becomes a passive follower of male member's<br>conclusions. In an androcentric society, a girl can never be independent self since her<br>childhood. She depends on her father even for her basic needs, and then her father<br>gives his burden (daughter) to another man (husband). When a girl reaches the age of<br>superannuation, she depends on her son, so women can never be emancipated beings.<br>Generally, women have become the victims of gender inequality. Especially Dalit<br>women experience a threefold assault of race, sex, and class. A Life Less Ordinary<br>(2002) and A Grip of Change (2006) are autobiographical literary narratives that<br>gracefully fuse the experiences of Baby Halder and P. Sivakami with the incidents<br>of larger Dalit groups pertaining to their class and gender. These writers foreground<br>multifaceted oppression against Dalit women and how that violence becomes<br>institutionalized by family, state, and upper-caste human beings. The paper shall<br>focus on how the concept of intersectionality theory describes different<br>discriminations regarding race, gender, identity, color, etc., meet at one point and<br>affect the lives of multitudes by creating oppression with respect to the selected Dalit<br>autobiographies.</p>