Voice Raising Against the Atrocities: A Critical Examination of P Sivakami's Taming of Women and Grips of Change

Abstract

Dalit literature is written by India's disadvantaged and oppressed people, those who are despised by various laborers. It is the literature that challenges all forms of exploitation that are motivated by caste, class, race, occupation, atrocity, or any other form of discrimination. Dalit women are going through sexual atrocities and violence brought on by discrimination based on gender and caste. In addition to the sexual and professional harassment Dalit women experience from upper caste men and the police outside of their homes, Sivakami's book The Grip of Change details the domestic and sexual violence Dalit women endure at home at the hands of Dalit men, including fathers, brothers, sons, father-in-law, and brothers-in-law. This essay focuses on how Bama's Sangati and Sivakami's The Grip of Change examine the sexual assault that Dalit women endure at the hands of men and women from higher castes as well as males from their own society. The members of the higher caste oppress and rule Dalits. They are denied access to all essential amenities, and more significantly, they are not accorded the equal status in society that they are due. Because they belong to the lowest classes, they are shunned and forced to the outskirts of society. The Dalit women's situation is far worse, and one needs to highlight how they manage to live and survive in these terrible conditions. However, despite this, the second sex makes an effort to oppose and fight against the horrors that are the main topic of the thesis.