Contrary to the passivity embedded in the term ‘victim’, collective victimhood experienced by the Dalits is highly active and agentic. Dalits negotiate the meaning of collective victimhood in various creative expressions where they project their lived experiences of ‘being’ and reify them at the collective level thus generating a radical shift in the very meaning of their state of being the victims by communicating a sense of resistance. This transition in the meaning of ‘being’ is facilitated by the process of ‘becoming’, which is explained here as social repositioning of the identity that involves recognising, deconstructing and reinterpreting the sense of imposed victimhood. Recognition of anguish and its projection in the form of collective resistance reconstructs Dalits’ victimhood and transforms their everyday experiences of being suppressed and oppressed into a form of political assertion. This article presents negotiations of meaning of Dalit (collective) victimhood, its reification through the varied creative expressions and the role of symbolic resources in birthing stability to the basic construct. It also discusses how the reified victimhood of Dalits acts as a ‘vehicle of emancipation’ for their harried members and as a tool to generate a collective identity that’s agentic, forceful and transformative.

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重塑集体受害者：达利特的叙事，社会定位和转型

与“受害者”一词所含的消极态度相反，达利特人经历的集体受害非常活跃且具有代理作用。达利特人以各种创造性表达方式来谈判集体受害者的含义，在他们中表达自己的“存在”经历并在集体层面上对其进行具体化，从而通过传达抵触感在其成为受害者的状态的意义上产生了根本性的转变。 。“存在”的过程促进了“存在”的这种转变，在这里，这被解释为对身份的社会重新定位，其中涉及到认识，解构和重新解释所施加的受害者感。对苦难的认识及其以集体抵抗形式的预测重新构造了达利特人的受害者，并将其被压迫和压迫的日常经历转变为政治主张的形式。本文介绍了达利特（集体）受害人的意义的谈判，通过各种创造性表达进行的具体化以及象征性资源在基本结构出生稳定中的作用。它还讨论了达利特人受害的机体如何充当其受困成员的“解放载体”，以及如何产生具有代理性，有力和变革性的集体身份的工具。通过各种创意表达和符号资源在基本构造的诞生稳定性中的作用来实现其具体化。它还讨论了达利特人受害的机体如何充当其受困成员的“解放载体”，以及如何产生具有代理性，有力和变革性的集体身份的工具。通过各种创意表达和符号资源在基本结构的诞生稳定性中的作用来实现其具体化。它还讨论了达利特人受害的机体如何充当其受困成员的“解放载体”，以及如何产生具有代理性，有力和变革性的集体身份的工具。