Untouchability was one of the biggest problems in India and this practice has only been mitigated not eradicated even after the enforcement of legal laws by the government. Laws can be made by the government but it is very difficult to change the mentality of the people. Though many dalit women writers from India have written their autobiographies in regional languages, yet only few autobiographies are available in English. Most of these autobiographies have been translated from other languages but there are few dalit women’s autobiographies which have been told by the autobiographers to someone else, and those people have recorded the life of illiterate dalit women. Viramma: The Life of an Untouchable by Viramma also belongs to this category. An autobiography is an authentic record of one’s life and it has all realistic depiction because all the incidents of the author’s life are revealed through him/her directly. That’s the reason, autobiography remains more appealing to people. Shweta Singh writes in this context: An autobiography with its claim of genuine remembrance and retelling can also have a counter-claim of genuine forgetting and omission as is evident from the treatment of women in male autobiographies....Dalit women not only questioned their victimization but also spoke for the upper and the middle class women who met the same fate at home.