Both literatures speak about struggles for human rights and against exploitation. More than anything else, the 'right' or 'ability' of the marginalized group to write literature comes under immediate contestation. There are numerous instances of painful experiences and fighting instincts that find expression in these literatures. The author has explicitly highlighted how Dalit and Aboriginal literatures are mirror images of the lives of the people in terms of sorrows, problems, pains and revolts of Dalit and Aboriginal societies. The study investigates the characteristics of these convergences and divergences between the two literatures. Given the fact that the two societies are different in terms of place and time, country, region, conditions and languages, it is understandable that while there are certain similarities, there are limitations and differences as well, convergences as well as divergences. To accomplish this, the author has taken into consideration some of the most important autobiographies from the two domains of writings. The present book is essentially a comparative discourse on subalternity, i.e., between Dalit literature in India and Aboriginal literature in Australia that seeks to look more closely at one of the most important literary genres - autobiography. Key words: Untouchability, Suppression, Discrimination, Rights, Equality. This paper deals with the autobiography of Narendra Jadhav‟s outcaste: A Memoir. Ambedkar for the removal of untochability in India. Jadhav also gives the fights and struggles of Dr. And how his father Damu and mother Sonu have experienced the pain of discrimination in the society. In his “Outcaste: A Memoir” Jadhav exposed the realistic picture of the problem of the untouchability in India. Narendra Jadhav is one of the important Dalit writer in Marathi literature. Only the persons who experienced that agony can write it with reality and effectively. Even writers like Mulk Raj Anand tried to mention at least the untouchability, he wrote completely as an outer. Nobody attempted to write about those agonies. The agony and anguish they have experienced since thousands of years in this country cannot be overlooked. In a country like India where there is lot of caste discrimination, it is not that easy for the Dalit‟s to express themselves openly and freely. Particularly in twentieth century literature it has developed to its culmination. Autobiography also has become one of the important literary forms. Abstract: Literature is manifested in many forms since time immemorial.
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