Dalit Literature, Where To Search It? Do Not Politicize It Please Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Dalit literature search I in
The Little Black Boy
And London of Blake,
Dalit literature search I in
The Beggar Maid by Tennyson.

Dalit literature find I
In the kangal boy
Shown to Adi Shankaracharya,
In the concept of daridranarayana
Which mentions it Tagore in Gitanjali.

Dalit literature saw I in
The poverty of Sudama,
The services of Raja Ram Mohun Roy,
William Bentick, Vidyasagar
Prohibiting the Sati system, child marriage.

Dalit literature found I in
The chimney-sweepers of Charles Lamb,
Derozio's The Fakir of Jungheera,
In pity and pain
Rather than politics.

Dalit literature felt I in
Tagore's Chandalika,
Eklavya's stunt
Making aghast and shameful,
Gandhi's Harijanodhara.