Societal Shallowness Compelling Manohar Mouli Biswas to Delineate his own world of Suffering in Surviving in my World: Growing up Dalit in Bengal

The paper aims to analyse Surviving in My World: Growing Up Dalit in Bengal by Manohar Mouli Biswas as a Dalit autobiography and how it depicts the writer's life in a contentious community where he has been prone to inhumane suffering and intimidation imposed by the upper castes only for appearing from a Dalit background. Biswas's autobiographical novel lends readers a vent into the inhumane nature of suffering, both corporal and societal, inflicted upon the Dalits in Bengal. It is largely claimed by Dalit writers that non-Dalit writers can never communicate the suffering experienced by the Dalits through their writings as their writings come from a certain sense of sympathy but Dalit writers largely empathize with their experienced pain and can delineate it through their writings quite distinctly. This disparity formulates a huge rift between the perceptions of the Dalit writers and that of the non-Dalit writers. This is perhaps why the Dalit writers prefer to communicate their arguments through their autobiographies without any influence of any writer outside the Dalit community. My paper will thus serve as a mirror within our society where caste plays a pivotal evil role, creating a rift. His experiences not only make us think about hardships but also make us amazed at our society where people are treated as animals even though they are constantly trying to sustain their livelihood through fair means. The paper will exhibit how Dalit trajectories trundle to form a new world of literature in Bengal.