Dalits' engagement with the land question has been subjected to obliteration in the mainstream histories of socio-political movements in the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh. This article seeks to examine how the dalits view the Leftist struggles for land as a conspiracy to deny land to the dalits. Not stopping with proficiency, they mastered the languages, evolved the grammars and served the languages and literatures. Necessitated by the British-Indian administration, the English officers had learnt the Indian languages to understand and serve the people better. Language Reform The mergence of the Indian novel in the nineteenth century was made possible by the reform and the modernization of the Indian languages by the English bureaucrat turned linguists. This article critiques the portrayal of the dalits in the upper caste novel and maps the emergence of the dalit novel as a genre. The dalit novel and short fiction by the dalits is more affirmative of the dalitness compared to poetry. The emergence of the dalit novel, shaped by the identity movements, is both a challenge and reply to the limitations of the upper caste novelists. The upper caste novels on the dalits suffer from certain limitations as their corresponding movements did. However, the pre-independence social novel, the post-independence political novel and the movement novel in the modern period failed to represent the life, contradictions and liberation of the dalits. Several liberal writers chose dalits as the protagonists as well as the themes. The other modernist movements-progressive, revolutionary and feminist-made the novel focused and topical moving away from the banal themes of the metaphysical, mysticism and love.

Brown (1798-1884) and the required impetus of the nationalist movement. Telugu novel as a genre emerged after the colonial reform of the language especially by C.P.

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