Indira Jalli questions the scholarly refusal to allow Dalits to identify themselves:
Your home–the nation–is
Clean and spacious now
Dalits are neither subjects to be retrieved
Nor objects to be analyzed
If we want to claim our subjecthood
We have to revive (?!) ourselves
As chandalas, mletchas
Or at least harijans
If we choose to stand as Dalits
We do not gather the
Surplus value of the oppressed
Any more!
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