{{Short description|Indian writer (1932–2020)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2018}} {{Use Indian English|date=November 2018}} '''Uttam Tupe''' (28 December 1932 – 26 April 2020) was a writer and poet from Pune, India.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.firstfoundation.in/Lit/lit_Dalit.htm |title=Dalit Literature – First Foundation |work=firstfoundation.in |access-date=27 May 2015 |archive-date=27 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130827233316/http://www.firstfoundation.in/Lit/lit_Dalit.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> He wrote several hundred short stories and 16 novels.<ref>{{cite book |last=Michael |first=S.M. |title=Untouchable, Dalits in Modern India |publisher=Lynne Rienner |year=1999 |isbn=978-1-55587-697-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ur3mgfASI7AC&pg=PA181 |access-date=27 May 2015}} p.166.</ref> One of his books was made into a successful play, and another into a feature film. Tupe also wrote about the social ills of the caste system and issues with Devadasi.<ref name="Devadasi">[http://www.the-criterion.com/V5/n3/Nilekha.pdf The Discourse of Devadasi Subject in Literary Vernacular: Contextualizing Resistance in Uttam Bandu Tupe’s ''Zulwa'']</ref><ref name="naik">{{cite book |last=Naik |first=C.D. |title=Thoughts and Philosophy of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar |publisher=Sarup & Sons |year=2003 |isbn=978-81-7625-418-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Bo0Rjlp-0QC&pg=PA396 |access-date=27 May 2015}}</ref>
==Early life==
Tupe wrote a series of novels with a Devadasi theme that were released into the Marathi literary scene in the 1980s.<ref name="Devadasi"/> Tupe began writing in the rustic dialect of his native Satara district. He crafted a short story on the evils of the dowry system. It was immediately published, and a few months later, Tupe got Rs 501 as a cash prize from the Marathi Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gujaratisahityaparishad.com/index.html |title=ગુજરાતી સાહિત્ય પરિષદ, અમદાવાદ – Gujarati Sahitya Parishad, Ahmedabad |author=Gujarati Sahitya Parishad |work=gujaratisahityaparishad.com |access-date=27 May 2015}}</ref>
==Works== *''Katyavaraci pota'' – Mehata Pablisinga Hausa; 3. avrtti edition (2001) *''Jhulava'' (झुलवा) *''Katyavaraci pota'' – 2001 *Kalasi – 1988 *''Andana'' – 1986 *''Jhavala'' – Publisher: Mehata Pablisinga Hausa; Prathamavrtti edition (1991) *''Zulwa'' – 1986, 2005<ref>{{cite book |last=Bandu |first=T.U. |title=Zulva |publisher=Majestrick, Mumbai |year=1986 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Be9nMwEACAAJ |language=de |access-date=27 May 2015}}</ref><ref>''Reading Devadasi Practice through Popular Marathi Literature'', by Anagha Tambe ''Economic and Political Weekly'' Vol. 44, No. 17 (25 April – 1 May 2009), pp. 85–92, Published by: Economic and Political Weekly</ref> *''Zulwa'' – The book Zulwa was adapted into a play by Chetan Datar for Marathi theatre. The play was an adaptation of the novel by Uttam Bandu Tupe who spent two years in a colony of jogtis to research the novel.
==Reception== Other authors have called Tupe a "noted subservient writer".<ref name="naik"/> Naik goes on to say that Tupe as well as Sri Patange, Texas Gaekawad, and Namedeo Kamble<ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.banaengp.com/membership-list-with-details.html |title=Membership List With Details |author=Babasaheb Ambedkar National Association of Engineers |work=banaengp.com}}</ref> all "are harmful in the sense that they depict life artificially and deliberately and mislead life."<ref name="naik"/>
==Social cause== In all his works Tupe was concerned with the crushing burden poor villagers carry. ''Zulva'', the most popular novel, deals with the plight of devadasis. Other themes include: Villagers superstitions,<ref>{{cite thesis |type=Ph.D. in history |title=A socio legal historical study of the reservation policy of the Mahar and Mang communities 1950 to 2008 |last=Jadhav |first=Tushar Tukaram |date=October 2014 |publisher=Nehru Institute at Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth University |chapter=Historical background and review of literature |hdl=10603/27131 |p=30}}</ref> dowry murders, and the problems of unemployed youth and migrants.{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}
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