TY - BOOK AU - Daniel, K. TI - Mirage: A Sri Lankan Dalit Novel SN - 9789556595154 U1 - 823 22 PY - 2016/// CY - Chennai PB - Kumaran Books N1 - Mirage, a Dalit 'Historical' novel first published in 1986 by K. Daniel of Jaffna, a catholic by birth but Marxist by choice, makes a probing inquiry into the early 20th century ' conversation' to Catholicism of the Nalavars and the pallars, two of the region's most downtrodden castes, asking what differnce the change of religion made to their overall well-being ER -