Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This essay will focus on the theoretical and political importance of anti-caste writings, taking Dalit feminist author Baby Kamble’s The Prisons We Broke (2009). It proposes that such Dalit writings need to be considered manifestos as they have an important role in advancing manuski or the human rights of Dalits. Anti-caste literary writings are critical foundations of the field of Dalit studies and enable Dalit theory to articulate and uphold the historical and contemporary conditions of Dalits’ oppression. Such manifestoes are thus documents for a radical future that shape the field of social studies, political theories, and social movements.
Author: SOMA MANDAL SOMA MANDAL
Institution: Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4415771369
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