Born in the January of 1988, Shubhra is a full time research scholar pursuing PhD in English Literature at Department of Humanities and Management, Dr B.R. Ambedkar NIT, Jalandhar. She is a postgraduate from the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Punjab University Chandigarh. Her area of research is Dalit Studies with special focus on women issues. She can be contacted through her e-mail: shubhrabajaj.nitj@gmail.com.

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• Delineating Social Exclusion through the Narrative of Caste: A Reading of Bama’s Karukku