Analysing Dalit Feminist Voices in Premchand’s Creations

Abstract

The present endeavour analyses the Dalit feminist voices in Premchand’s Literary World. The Dalit female characters in the works of Hindi writer, Premchand dwell on untouchables and their pitiable conditions. Many celebrated Hindi writers, including Premchand, have been discussed as writers who mirror the downtrodden figures. Mahatma Gandhi rightly said, “Untouchability is the hate fullest expression of caste.” The paper deals with Premchand’s writings on the basis of humanism in the early decades of 19th Century. In Premchand’s writings, Gandhian notions of the ‘Hridya Privartan’ was a dominant feature. It is striking that untouchable female voices are not presented as agents of change in this literature; rather their poor conditions and helplessness treat as an insurmountable obstacle; is a characteristic feature of the Hindi literature. I sincerely endeavour that all classes and categories people must have freedom- social, economic, political, intellectual and emotional- without any encroachment upon each other’s freedom to make clear the difference between the objectives of the literature.