The dissertation studies select life narratives from Kerala (1950-2022) through the caste location of the respective writers. By exploring various social, political and cultural discourses, the genre of life narrative is contextualized within the community histories of the authors. In my research, the question of genre as a socio-literary construct is analyzed through the framework of caste(s). Individual’s history writings/ life narratives converge at the spatial histories of Kerala, where different communities make sense of and negotiate the "public" differently. Private/ public dichotomy of spatiality is also critically engaged through the lens of caste(s) in this study. Spatiality is used as a theoretical tool to explore the relationality between subjectivity, caste and space. The interdisciplinary analytic of Dalit Studies, Critical Caste Studies and Rummy-writing Studies are used to interrogate the spatial dimension of caste. This research on life narratives posits how different caste identities are constructed through relationality and complementarity. Dalit life narratives are examined through the conceptual axes of Dalit historiography and Dalit epistemology to illustrate the nuances of "public" and counter public(s). Consequently, the canonical genre of autobiography as an idealized discourse of modernity and the unmarked subjectivity of the individual are challenged in this thesis by foregrounding the category of caste. The dominant paradigms of history writing– Subaltern, Marxist and Nationalist– are thus inevitably problematized through an exploration of the discourse of caste.