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'''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}}</ref> He wrote several hundred [[short stories]] and 16 [[novel]]s.<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 (theatre)|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 (arts)|theme]] that were released into the [[Marathi language|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 language|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 (play)|Zulwa]]'' – The book Zulwa was adapted into a play by [[Chetan Datar]] for [[Marathi language|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 [[superstition]]s,<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 [[Human migration|migrants]].{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}

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