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In her Introduction to Omaprakāśa Vālmīki’s autobiography Joothan: An Untouchable’s Life (2003), Arun Mukherjee ruminates on the vexed relationship between Marxism and anti-caste1 politics in India:
Theorists like Limbale feel that Dalit literature and literary theory should not reject Marxism just because Indian Marxists have completely ignored caste-based oppression, forgetting the truth of Ambedkar’s observation that caste creates a division of workers. Nevertheless, many Dalit writers harbor considerable suspicion vis-à-vis Marxist theory and Indian Marxists. (xxxv)
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Malreddy, P.K. (2015). Labour, Pleasure and the Sublime: The ‘Work’ of the Dalitbahujans. In: Malreddy, P.K., Heidemann, B., Laursen, O.B., Wilson, J. (eds) Reworking Postcolonialism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137435934_9
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