Recovering the Lost Voices of Nepali Dalit Subaltern: Teleserial Dalan

Abstract

Teleserial Dalan, written by Ahuti and directed by Nabin Subba, is an agency for unfolding social realities of the Nepalese Dalit. So, this research mainly studies Dalan from the perspective of subalterns to analyse the political sensibility and ideologicalvoices of Dalit community in the Nepalese Society.The main character Manavgoes from the serial and concluding that it is the sense of political self which enables one to question the system and its apparatus.Without ideological awareness, one loses critical perception;one becomes victim of one's own subjective whims.In this Tele Serial Manavre presents to the Dalit forums and representing the voices of collective Dalits. The research draws on Luiss Althussure's concept of "ideological state apparatus" arguing that ideology is a system representation of the recovering the lost voices of subaltern. Manav, Juthe, Harihar and Tulki have triangulate nexus relations in terms of caste and creed that represents political and cultural sensibility in the serial.The research aims at exploring the case of Dalit Subaltern and transformation socio-cultural apparatus in the context of Tele serial Dalan for covering the lost voices of marginalized community. The finding of the research is that subaltern can have an ideology and they are subsequently adopting as a national citizen having with own voice.