![]() ![]() ![]() What remains common throughout his journey is caste oppression on various levels. Joothan entails Valmiki’s journey from childhood to adulthood. Om Prakash Valmiki’s novel, Joothan, the autobiographical account of the writer, published in 2008, is a work of Dalit literature painted with Dalit consciousness that highlights the workings of the caste system and voices resistance against it. The journey of Dalits as subjects and not passive victims began from the point when they took to their identities as ‘Dalit’ or downtrodden as a mark of the oppression the upper castes have hurled at them. Dalit consciousness challenges this subordination and discrimination by its representation in Dalit literature. Sharan Kumar Limbale describes Dalits as ‘those living outside the boundary of the village’. In this essay, Isha Sharma explores Om Prakash Valmiki’s Joothan, considered to be a work of Dalit literature painted with Dalit consciousness. ![]()
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