ABSTRACT
This chapter documents the resistance of rural Dalit women in Uttar Pradesh; the way they have been resisting their identity of subjugation, that is, gender and Dalit. The Dalit women have used various strategies to reject the position of victim in which they are so often cast. For this, they have recreated and ruptured the dominant social scripts – those that label them as victims. They are successfully and strategically mobilizing their fellow women to raise voices on the issues of patriarchy and caste violence. They are reclaiming, redefining and transforming their identity. These Subalterns are creating a parallel discursive arena where the members of subordinated social groups invent and circulate counter discourse. These women are asserting to rupture the caste-gender hegemony to counter the dominant discourses of society, mostly controlled by the dominant publics. They internalize, resist and subvert the hegemonic discourse of the world.
