ABSTRACT
This chapter focusses on how Aravind Malagatti’s Government Brahmana depicts an improvement upon the state of the discursive denial of citizenship imagined by Baby Kamble in The Prisons We Broke . In the Indian context, Dalits have indeed seen the discursive granting of citizenship, though Malagatti, through his work, successfully drives home the point that the discursive granting of citizenship has not changed things for Dalits, as they continue to face the same inequities. The chapter deals with Malagatti’s analyzing of the true nature of the discursive granting of citizenship, which includes the performative denial of citizenship, using the narrative tropes in the autobiography as a starting-off point. In order to depict the discursive granting and performative denial of citizenship, it uses the same parameters mentioned in Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 to depict the discursive denial of citizenship.
