期刊名称：Lapis Lazuli : an International Literary Journal
电子版ISSN：2249-4529
出版年度：2017
卷号：7
期号：1
页码：314
出版社：Pinter Society of India
摘要：The year 1947 has a significant place in the history of modern India. A mere gloss over Partition archives is sufficient to suggest that the division was extremely painful. Partition and Caste Politics are often thought of as two separate discursive terrains in the history of modern India. There have been limited attempts in academia to read these two terms in relation to each another. Nonetheless, the idea has gained currency and the revisionist historiography of Partition has started grappling the issues of trauma, loss and collective memory from the lens of multiple identities. While different communities have registered their experiences in one way or the other, the Dalit perspective on Partition seems to have been stifled– both in nationalist historiographies of Partition as well as literature. Even if they do exist, they are largely invisible from the mainstream literature about Partition. This paper aims to discuss the position of Dalits during the freedom struggle and after the Partition of India. It sheds light on the politics ofrepresentation in order to locate the probable reasons for near absence of Dalit voices from the literary domain and asserts that Dalits continue to face identity crisis even in post– Partition times.
关键词：Partition; Trauma; Dalit experience; Caste Politics; Nationalist Historiography
