All battles cannot be won by swords or guns alone, particularly when the battle is against discriminatory ideologies and supremacist ideas. Dalit Writer Bama’s book Karukku is one such attempt to contest, resist and replace all such flawed ideas and hegemonic dogmas that have dehumanized Indian Dalits for centuries. This testimonio exposes the shameful and ugly facets of Indian societal structure, in which caste-based stratification has unfortunately and unjustly treated those very masses who have most diligently served this ancient civilization with their sweat and blood. Through this book, Bama makes an impactful appeal to her fellow folks—the Dalits and, in particular, to the Dalit women—to join hands together in re-conceptualizing and re-asserting their collective as well as individual identities so as to claim their rightful place in the Indian social order. This article not only delineates upon these multiple dimensions of this masterpiece that have contributed substantially to Dalit feminism but also argues that this book must be read as a thought-provoking piece of ‘Resistance literature’. Further, this article will also make an attempt to trace the intersecting trajectories between ‘Dalit feminism’, ‘Black feminism’ and ‘Postcolonialism’.

不能仅凭剑或枪就不能赢得所有战斗，尤其是在与歧视性意识形态和至高无上的思想作斗争的情况下。达利特作家巴马的书Karukku这是一种试图对抗，抵制和取代所有已使印度达利特人丧失人道能力的有缺陷的观念和霸权教条的一种尝试。这份证词暴露了印度社会结构的可耻和丑陋的方面，在这种社会阶层中，基于种姓的分层不幸地和不公正地对待了那些竭尽全力用汗水和鲜血为这个古老文明服务的群众。通过这本书，巴马对同胞们（达利特人，尤其是达利特妇女）产生了深远的吸引力，他们携手合作，重新概念化并重新肯定了他们的集体身份和个人身份，从而宣称自己的身份在印度社会秩序中应有的地位。本文不仅描述了杰作的这些多个方面，这些方面对达利特女权主义做出了重大贡献，而且还认为，这本书必须作为“抵抗文学”的发人深省的内容来阅读。此外，本文还将尝试追溯“达利特女权主义”，“黑人女权主义”和“后殖民主义”之间的相交轨迹。