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| Article Name : | | | OORU KERI: A TRACT OF DALIT MOVEMENT | | Author Name : | | | Shrinivas K., Mukund Lamani | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | ROR-1764 | | Article : | |  | Author Profile | | Abstract : | | | A cultural revolution like Dalit movement has immense impact on literature. In turn, literature has kept on reckoning the events of the revolution from time to time. Because, both the literature and history are interwoven, they influence each other. Autobiographies, in particular, have successfully registered the events of the Dalit movement with factual substance. The paper makes an attempt to investigate Ooru Keri, an autobiography by Kannada Dalit poet Siddalingaiah, in order to find how the movement is reflected in it. The autobiography has proved its presence in the mainstream literature due to its objective analysis of the movement from a downtrodden perspective. The narrator of the text hails the triumph the Dalit movement as well cautions the readers about the possible threats to the course of the movement by referring to minute details carefully. | | Keywords : | | |
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