Synopsis The present book deals with the literature of two marginalized groups of people, namely, the Indian Dalits and the American Blacks. Dalit writing is a post-Independence literary phenomenon. The emergence of Dalit literature has a great historical significance. It has served the purpose of awakening the consciousness of the downtrodden for forging their identities. Like Dalit writers in India, African-American writers in the US have given expression in their writings to the protest against the established order of society that discriminates one man from another on the basis of caste, colour and religion. Dalit writers as also African-American writers envisage a society that is based on new order, a society that values the principles of liberty, equality and fraternity.