G. Kalyana Rao’s Untouchable Spring: A Tale of Humiliation and Violence of Dalit Women

Volume 2 Issue 2 Monsoon Edition 2022

Abstract

Aim: After 70 years of Indian independence, the Indian nation stands at a crucial crossroads with its complex negotiations among prehistoric social formations, colonial doctrines, and a rapid surge of cultural identities which claim their autonomous space. G Kalyana Rao, an activist, playwright, and one of the most active members of the Revolutionary Writers’ Movement, writes not only to express his Dalit experiences and feelings from a literary point of view but also to make aware of their lived struggle, clashes, painful life experiences, etc. to the readers at the political, social and cultural level. the novel adopts the oral style of an epic, but this is not an epic about grand royal sieges but rather an epic about struggle, humiliation, violence, survival, revolt, and the permanence and irreversibility of caste and gender. During an era of advancement in science, innovation, and culture, ethos, no noteworthy change has been initiated in the existence of outcasts in India. Social, monetary, and cultural existence of Dalits has not changed since the pre-historic. While scripting the story of the exploitation and oppression that these female characters suffer, he never forgets to underscore their attempts at resistance-sometimes violent, sometimes quiet, and sometimes even crafty in their witty efforts to outwit their powerful enemies. To describe their relentless struggle between the oppressed and the oppressors, the powerful and the powerless at the various levels of our society. Methodology and Approach: The study is based on the novel G. Kalyana Rao’s Untouchable Spring as a primary text. It speaks of the stories of exploitation and oppression that the female characters undergo. Outcome: Through the novel, the writer discusses the literary movement and development, which had begun in the early part of the twentieth century, and has been a branch of the abuse of Dalits by the upper caste positions.