Such a problem is articulated by the proletarian revolutionary character, Joseph D’Costa in Salman Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children, who says of India’s national liberation that ‘this independence is for the rich only’. The leading authors of Dalit literature in India are Mulk Raj Anand ( Collie, Untouchable etc.), Om Prakash Valmiki, Munshi Premchand, Baburao Bagul and Mahasweta Devi ( Aranyer Adhikar). Untouchables, burst, split, scattered, dispersed, depressed or crushed classes, underprivileged, downtrodden, ground-down and Harijans are generally called Dalits. The term “Dalit” means “those who have been broken and ground down by those above them in the social hierarchy in a deliberate and active way”. Marginality gets its root in India in the sphere of Dalit literature.
Many postcolonial writers and theorists have challenged the representative claims to marginality of the elite or dominant classes in postcolonial cultures and societies.
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