Key Words: cosmopolitanism, joothan, peripheral voices, dalit predicaments, cultural trauma, dalit identity crisis, caste system.Ībstract: After the independence and implementation of our own constitution, which has several provisions for the removal of many inhuman social practices, the reality is still very different. Besides, what it means being a downtrodden Hindu to Valmiki, the paper ponders upon issues of cultural trauma experienced by deprived classes. A systematic caste colonization and Brahmin patriarchy dislocated the very cultural existence of Valmiki community in Uttar Pradesh. The focal point of this paper is to examine, with the help of Omprakash Valmiki's Dalit autobiography, Joothan, how the caste atrocity for centuries has engineered the disruption and brought a state of social collapse to the Dalit ethnic world. Deliberately constructed caste system is the foundation of inhumanity and societal violence in India. In India, fourth world is a world of deprived community born out of varna system. Social stratification has been studied quite elaborately in India, whose society is more fragmented than that of any other nation. The indigenous and 'traditional states' have evolved as 'nation states' with the consolidation of centralized control of the means of political, cultural, societal, religious, race and caste hegemony and violence. Fourth world literature and reality have come in dialogues with the mainstream paradoxes across the world.
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