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It is very unfortunate to accept that those who are marginalized in India are yet to attain equality in the matters of social justice, political equality and intellectual domain. The marginalized communities, notably the untouchables are still tortured, humiliated and isolated in various parts of India. They are still forced to confine at the peripheries in spite of their calibers. The reports about rape, mass killing and tortures of the untouchables in India exists both among thewell-educated, progressive minded, urban settlers and illiterate, rural people Myths are legendry narratives, which stand as a point of transition between myth and history. It is basically tales which doesn’t’ follow a pattern of plot. Myths of Dalits are quasi history of their protest against the social injustice. They started to make their own narratives in order to contradict the upper hand served by the Brahmanical aristocrats. This subaltern mentality is evident in the dalit’s myth-making process. Their tales are reflections of their oppositions against the oppressions. The present paper is an attempt to find out the ways in which the myths of dalits deconstruct the upper caste belief systems existing in the Indian society.