Origin and Development of Dalit Ideology and Historical Perspective

Abstract

The development of  Dalit ideology and literature in India. “The established   literature of India is Hindu literature. But it is the Dalit literature. This has the revolutionary power to accept new science and technology and bring about a total transformation. Dalit is the name for total revolution, it is revolution incarnate.The first phase of Dalit literature, Which may be termed, the Bhakthi Movements finds its origins in the writings of sent poet, namely chokamela, ravi Das,Kabir,The Bhakti Movement and their literature ,had its impact on the first half of the activist sand writers who were preparing ground for a strong fight against caste discrimination in India. Ideology is a key term in literary, understanding of the term Ideology is rooted in the writings of German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. In their original sociological analysis, they defined Ideology as "The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal has control at the same time over the means of mental production. The entirety or the system of ideas of the ruling class would be the Ideology of a given society. The function of ideology would be the continual reproduction of the means of production and thereby to ensure the continuous dominance of the ruling class. Ideology achieves this by distorting reality. While in fact the split in ruling and subservient social classes is artificial and serves the needs of the economic system, the idea of ideology makes it appear natural. It makes the subordinate classes accept a state of alienation against they would otherwise revolt. This state of alienation has also been referred to as "false consciousness".