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Abstract
Dalit Literature began as a protest against the unjust social order. Akkarmashi
or The Outcaste, a landmark in Marathi Dalit Literature is an emotionally
numbing autobiography written by Sharankumar Limbale in the Mahar dialect
of Maharashtra in 1984. He portrays the humiliation Dalit community faced at
the hands of an unthinking privileged class. Limbale describes the miserable
life he lived as an outcaste ,not having an identity or home. In his
autobiography he shows the inequality, discrimination and indifference
suffered by Dalits. The present paper brings out the double marginalised self
of a Dalit in the post independence India, the discrimination he suffered on the basis of caste, identity crisis and economic disparity. It sheds light on how a
man who is within a marginalised community is susceptible to even more
marginalisation.