Dalit Literature, Is It Political Or Sociological? Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Dalit literature, is it
Political or sociological,
Telling about the rights
And social justice meted out to them?

How were they victimized,
Subjected to suffering and struggle,
Injustice and tyranny,
Inhuman treatment
Though they were human beings?

Dalit, the word means downtrodden,
Crushed with legs and feet,
Fallen and trodden,
The under-dogs and the have-nots
Politically, from the Marxistic point of view.

Is it of Daridranarayana and his kangal-bhojana,
Is it of Kabir and Tukaram,
Is it of Karna and Eklavya
Or of Surpanakha, Hidimba and others,
Sati, Sita, Draupadi and Shakuntala
Or of Bhishma and Eklavya?