Dalit poetry in India can be traced back to bhakti kal. During freedom struggle one of the deepest impacts on Indian literature is Mahatma Gandhi and Gandhian philosophy. Dalit is an oppressed class but its situation is even worse and more complicated. The caste exploitation is characteristically unique and very different from class exploitation. But there seems sometimes an overlapping and some time a clash between progressive thought that was shaped by the paradigms of Marxist concept of class conflict and dalit consciousness that was shaped by the experience of humiliation and depravity imposed by a religiously sanctioned social order. It is in this context, Sant Ram Udasi is being discussed in the paper. Though he belonged to the depressed class, he consciously and explicitly was a revolutionary poet of the oppressed. Whether he was unconsciously avoiding a conflict within or was aiming at some kind of synthesis. It remains enigma.