The Agony of Subjugated as Expressed in Om Prakash Valmiki’s Joothan

Abstract

Culture, both positive and negative, can be understood and evaluated through
literature in a variety of ways. Literature can help us comprehend and evaluate society in both
positive and negative ways. Every society's customs and traditions have evolved as a result of
the power dynamics that have existed from the beginning of time. Colonial and colonised have
both appeared in postcolonial literature as representations of the power relationship between
coloniser and colonised, as well as coloniser and colonised. A major subject highlighted by
postcolonial literature is the exploitation of colonised populations on a variety of levels and
grounds, which is discussed in detail below. International literary communities pay particular
attention to the theme of subjugation of Dalit, their marginal existence, and cruelty on the basis
of caste and class. In literature, this is a topic that has received a lot of attention recently.