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AuthorSharankumar Limbale

Sharankumar Limbale is a Dalit author and poet. He writes in Marathi and has forty-four published works to his name. His books have been translated into several Indian languages. He is widely known for his autobiography, Akkarmashi (The Outcaste). His book Towards an Aesthetic of Dalit Literature is highly acclaimed in the academic world. He is the first Dalit writer to have received the Saraswati Samman, one of India’s highest awards for Indian literature. His work is taught at many universities.

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Caste, Gender, and Performance in Sharankumar Limbale’s Akkarmashi: A Butlerian Reading

V.Siva

Research Scholar

School of English and Foreign Languages

The Gandhigram Rural Institute (Deemed to be University)

Gandhigram, Dindigul

Tamil Nadu, India

Dr. S. Balasundari

Associate Professor

School of English and Foreign Languages

The Gandhigram Rural Institute (Deemed to be University)

Gandhigram, Dindigul

Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract:

This article examines the complex intersections of caste, gender, and performance in Sharankumar Limbale’s autobiographical novel, Akkarmashi, through a Butlerian lens. Drawing on the theoretical framework of Judith Butler’s performativity theory, the article argues that Akkarmashi subverts dominant norms of caste and gender through its portrayal of the protagonist’s performance of various social roles. The article analyzes how Limbale’s text destabilizes the traditional dichotomy of the public and private spheres, challenging the normative ideas of

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അക്കർമാശി | Akkarmashi

May 31, 2018
My father and his father are Lingayats. Therefore I should also be a Lingayat. My mother was a Mahar. My mother’s father and grandfather are also Mahars. So I should also be one. From the day I was born, I was looked after and reared by my grandpa, my Dada Muhammad Dastagir Jamadar, who is technically my Dada because he lives with my grandma Santa Mai. So can it be said that I am a Muslim? Can’t my grandpa claim that I am a Muslim in lieu of all the love he showered on me? When my mother is an untouchable, how will I be a Savarna? And even when I am untouchable, what about my father? A Savarna?

This is the cry of a soul from India’s casteist hell. Sharankumar Limbale, born of an illicit union between Hanumantha Limbale, a village Patil (head), and Masa Mai, an untouchable Mahar woman, in a village bordering Karnataka and Maharashtra, is having a permanent existence in a twilight zone. Unacceptable (obviously!) as an ‘upper’ caste, he is seen as impure by the Mahars also! Hence the term “Akkarmaashi” – local slang meaning “half breed” – used