Globalization and the subsequent flourishing of the 'English' have dismantled the monolith of the 'English literary canon' by putting in place 'new' literatures and various interdisciplinary principles and approaches that have somehow carried out a 'reordering' of the existing order. In such a moment of paradigmatic shifts – especially in the wake of postcolonial theories and subaltern studies – the emergence of Dalit literature(s) offers ample space to examine the “politics of representation”. However, my article is not so much concerned with the question of Dalit literature proper, but with the dynamics of the polemical word – “dalit” – and how, in addition to a recorded manifestation of physical/tangible “violence” or “resistance”, not always, of course, the continuous negotiations between narratives and counter-narratives mark the “Dalit space”. For this reason, I rely on the elasticity of the term "Dalit" and intend to show how the often misunderstood term implies "masses exploited and oppressed economically, socially, culturally in the name of religion and other factors" and also how the "Dalit space" becomes “vocal” and sometimes achieves “liminality” through interreligious/interracial correspondence. In “Mahesh,” Gafur, a Muslim, challenges what Ambedkar called the tolerant behavior of caste Hindus towards non-Hindus, and endures the “stance” of a Dalit who ultimately registers passive resistance through “dislocation.” On the other hand, in “Shikar”, Mary Oraon, an organic intellectual, breaks out of the constraints of the Dalit position as she is the cross-product of an interracial mating, as she 'hunt' the (in)human predator and also as she embraces the 'New World'. Instead of diving straight into my... middle of paper......fy.Works Cited1. Brooker, Peter, A Glossary of Cultural Theory, Arnold, Great Britain, 2003.2. Ciondola, Arjun, ed. Poisoned bread, Black Swan of the East, rev. ed.2009.3. Griffiths, Gareth and Ashcroft, Bill and Menin, Sarah, Empire Responds: Theory and Practice in Postcolonial Literatures, Routledge, 2nd rev. and. 2002.4. Gupta, Vandana, Mahasweta Devi: A Critical Reading, Creative Books, New Delhi, 2009.5. Limbale, Sharankumar, Towards an Aesthetics of Dalit Literature: History, Controversies and Considerations, Orient Blackswan, 2004.6. Nair, Bindu, the essay “Subversion and resistance: the uses of myth in “The Hunt” and the book of the hunter by Mahasweta Devi”, Littcrit, vol-34, no-2, December 2008.7. Sinha, Sasadhar, The Draft and Other Stories, Sahitya akademi, New Delhi, 2004.8. Spivak, GC translation, Imaginary Maps, Thema, Calcutta, 1993.