The Indian caste system has produced a particular community called ‘untouchables’ based on their birth identity in the milieu of social formation. The Dalits, previously the untouchables, or the Depressed classes or the Harijans, have been subject to both social exclusion and economic discrimination over the centuries and have been forced to suffer the evils of social injustice and exploitation. It was in protest against such unequal practices in a society where one group benefits by stealing from another that Dalits began to react with the help of their own literature and by forming organisations like the Dalit Panthers.1 This attitude of protest and revolt spearheaded the activism that has today come to be known as the Dalit movement. It is the idea of equality that sparked the beginning of the Dalit movement in India. As a conscious outburst against the age-old atrocities committed against them, the Dalit movement is a struggle that tries to launch a counter-attack against the socio-cultural hegemony of the upper castes. It is a movement of the masses that craves justice through speeches, literary works, dramas, songs, the activities of cultural organisations, and all the other possible means. Hence, the Dalit movement may be called a movement led by Dalits with the purpose of seeking equality for them with all other castes in Hindu society. The main objective of the Dalit movement was to establish a society in India completely based on social equality and free from any kind of discrimination and injustice.