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Item Critique of Untouchability in Indian Society: A View from the Margin in The God of Small Things(Department of English, 2008) Prasai, MayaThe present dissertation demonstrates Arundhati Roys's critique of untouchability of Indian society through The God of Small Things. This study tries to examine the voice of Ammu and Velutha who are treated as the “small things” in the society. Ammu, being a touchable and a member of high class family in social status is victimized due to her relation with lower caste man and Velutha is beaten to death being a paravan (untouchable). Both low caste people and women are subalternized in the society by the so-called superior class. The idea of untouchability is explored at two levels in the novel. Firstly, we have social untouchables, or paravan, who are never allowed basic human rights. Secondly, we have metaphoric untouchables in high castes. Here discrimination expresses itself in marginalizing the women in their personal and public life.Item Representation of Dalit Identity Crisis in Selected Nepali Newspaper Articles(Department of English, 2017) Joshi, SarmilaThis research attempts to explore the lapses of media representation of Dalit identity crisis from the theoretical perspective of Subaltern Studies. This research critically examines Dalit news and articles in national dailies; The Kathmandu Post and The Rising Nepal of 2015. The hollow representation of Dalit issue seems insufficient to fight against caste based discrimination and untouchability. Steven Folmer’s theory befits here, where problem of Dalit identity is taken similar to the identity problem of other social group which is not appropriate for actual representation. This research also contributes to unveil how the state and private media represent Dalit issue in the print media. The ideology of The Rising Nepal seems to serve and become the manifesto of the government and The Kathmandu Post is helping the elite to collect the capital. These print media thus fail to cover the issue regarding Dalits. Thus the issue of Dalit does not get sufficient space even in the republican period of New Nepal. With the help of articles, news and editorials, the research proves that the print media have simply generalized the different marginalized communities all together and turned back to the genuine issue of subaltern people like Dalits. Thus print media should cover the issue of Dalits from different perspective than that of other ethnic minorities.