Writing Caste in Sotto Voce

Abstract

The thesis titled Writing Caste in Sotto Voce The Paradigms of Savarna newlineDiscourse and Dalit Dialogue is primarily an engaged critique of nine newlinetwentieth century progressive Malayalam plays The second half of the twentieth century is marked by the lateral entry of newlinemany erstwhile liminal identities into the centre stage of discursive newlinepractices Reclaiming a withered past people hitherto laid unnoticed in the newlineabyss of unread histories tried to articulate their identity in a distinct say newlineindigenous way especially in the third world newline