Postcolonial translation studies have foregrounded questions of power and representation. However, limited attention has been paid to how the translation of Dalit women’s writing negotiates caste-specific trauma within global feminist frameworks. Addressing this gap, the study analyses the linguistic and cultural shifts between the Bengali source texts and their English translations. This article examines how translation mediates trauma and silence while enabling resistance in select short stories from Dalit Kotha: The Subaltern Voice in a Bengali Woman’s Narratives (2022) by Bengali Dalit writer Manju Bala, originally written in Bengali. Through her writings, Bala locates the silence and trauma of the unrecognised voice(s) of Dalit women of Bengal, which has been a less discussed issue in the dominant literary arena of Bengal. Through critical textual analysis, the study demonstrates how translation becomes a form of counter-discursive practice that both exposes and negotiates structures of caste patriarchy.