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@article{204220,
        author = {Dr. Geetha N},
        title = {An Exploration of Dalit Life and Identity crisis in Sharankumar Limbale’s “The Outcaste: Akkarmashi”},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {13},
        number = {1},
        pages = {1370-1373},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=204220},
        abstract = {The aim of Dalit literature is to fight-against the recognized structure which is grounded on wrong and to uncover the morally wrong and the act of pretending to have higher standards of the higher castes. The Present paper focuses on Shravankumar Limbale"s The Outcaste: Akkarmashi, as an art of examining the Dalit life and identity crisis. Dalit autobiography is one of the notable techniques of writing the individual’s own being and the group of people. It is thought of as the expression of conversation within a long uninterrupted speech. The author talks on account of his groups wants, aspirations and difficulties. The self of the author is displayed as self of his/her group whose worries, problems and sources are talked. The author’s involvements, his discrimination from his specific folks and group. Limbale tells his mother’s story in his autobiography as a very disturbing one-it was all about body exploitation by the superior class. This paper boards upon the filthy attack made against Limbale’s mother all her life in one or the other way. This story is more or less the same for all the Dalits in common and Limbale in his autobiography reasons the manner of humiliation. Limbale"s story is a perfect text of life of the Dalits. The story records altered sides of public, sensible and monetary separation. Shravankumar Limbale in his autobiography The Outcaste: Akkarmashi (2003) accepts the obligation of exposing the requirements and the difficulties of the group through his story. 
The difficulty of the total Dalit group developed into the troubles of his own self. The pain of the whole group became the pains of his own self. The exposure of Dalit groups is given key importance in the text and explicitly debated and unfolded by the observation of Limbale himself alongside seizing the unique duty of portraying and expressing out his groups wants and yearnings, difficulties and hardships at varied magnitude. Limbale’s The Outcaste: Akkarmashi (2003) incorporates the complete truth of socio- cultural and past position of a mahar community in a rural residential community from the playwright’s eye. The paper presents several situations of socio-cultural and past position of not only mahars but also of Dalits in Bharath as the sufferers of ancient customs and practices.},
        keywords = {Caste, Discrimination, Identity, Hypocrisy, Struggles, Sensibility, Protest, Freedom, Crisis, Search},
        month = {June},
        }