The autobiography is a personal account of one’s own life. Several Dalits have written autobiographies detailing their life struggles. This is a true testament to raising one’s own voice through the written word. The library collection of Dalit autobiographies consists of 22 titles. Most of these are in English or Marathi (language native to the Indian state Maharashtra). Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay discusses the importance of Dalit autobiographies in “Meaning of Work in Dalit Autobiographies”.
Autobiographies are part of a literary genre that brings personal accounts of life in public domain. They incite others too to relate with their human emotions and circumstances with lived-up reality of the autobiography-writer. Autobiographies serve different purpose in different times and if autobiographies of Dalit writers are called as narrative of pain, it carries certain historical truth.
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