Dalit Women Talk Differently - Gopal Guru

   Dalit Women Talk Differently

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        Gopal Guru an Indian political scientist and a retired professor, in his work Dalit Women Talk Differently talks about the rights of Dalit women to address themselves in the medium of feminine as usually they are not given with the representative to speak for their cause instead they have to be in a silent state while someone represents their cause who does not aware of the hurdles of this particular group of women. According to the feministic perspective women are treated badly by the patriarchal society so similar to this case Dalit women are facing the male domination but there is an even more hurdle, the caste system, which makes them lowest in the lower order, so the one who has not faced this kind of discrimination can not be a sufficient one to represent the Dalit women.

The independent and autonomous organisation of dalit women has the potential to counter dalit patriarchy from within and state- sponsored globalisation from without. 

        According to Gopal Guru, Dalit woman can represent herself in the feminist stage for voicing out her problem, as she is capable to counter any kind of domination and hurdles that she has bee facing. She has her own voice and identity to represent her cause. This kind of autonomous feminist group has seen in the Beijing conference, there the Dalit women have chance to represent themselves after the effect of National Federation of Dalit Women at Delhi on August 11.

        After these accounts, Gopal Guru gives the details for the significance of Dalit women’s  representing, as they are facing a novel struggles unlike other women, they have both internal and external factors.

Dalit women justify the cause for talking differently on the basis of external factors ( non- dalit forces homogenising the issues of dalit women) and internal factors ( the patriarchal domination within the dalit.

        As similar to the idea of  the Dalit woman writer Bama in her work Karukku suggests that the Dalit women faces struggles from two sides as the two edged sword of God from The Holy Bible, Gopal Guru gives his idea of internal and external factors, so Dalit women are doubly marginalised. A problem of Dalit women has represented by the non Dalit women leads the representation a less authentic and less valid one. Just by looking at the external factors one can not express the hardships of a Dalit woman they have to see the internal factors which can only shown by the person who actually faces that particular problem .

        Then Gopal Guru gives some of the accounts about the need of autonomous feminist group because in one time feminist people are supporting the rich farmers so there is an need for the support to the agricultural laborers who are all indicating the Dalit community by the Dalit women. In the case of moral economy Dalit women are not given with the proper piece of land. Likewise they have faced many other issues which indicate the importance of this separate autonomous group, but this does not meant the separate account in the feminist practices, they just want the representation of themselves. 

        After this he deals with the patriarchal struggles within the Dalit community, as many Dalit women have counterattacked the men who are all suppressing them, because Dalit men are forcing the discrimination on the Dalit women which they are facing in the outside community, so one has to give significance to caste, class and gender. And Gopal gives some attributes to view the problems of a Dalit woman, as the view should give emancipation to Dalit women from the Dalit men, and the Dalit women can be understood in a epistemological standpoint.