Much of the Punjabi literary criticism available on Sant Ram Udasi delves into his poetry, concerning the details of his personal life. For this reason, in most books written or edited about him, the tendency to establish him as a comrade/Dalit/Sikh is more prominent than exploring the background of Udasi’s poetic creation. It is a fact that writers do emerge, and get influenced by the conflicts of the socio-political circumstances, and that their individual talent cannot remain untouched or be judged isolating those factors from their contemporary socio-political concerns. Udasi’s poetry cannot be understood in isolation from the situation in Punjab during the seventh and eighth decades of the twentieth century. In the background of this period, there’s a utopia of socialism striving on the remnants of the progressive poetic movement, on the one hand, while on the other there’s the politics of identities—caste, religion and gender in the socio-cultural backdrop of India/Punjab. The constant tussle between the fantasy of an egalitarian and socialistic society, and the reality wherein the intersectional identities co-exist, form the basis of Udasi’s poetic creation. This chapter aims to read Sant Ram Udasi’s poetry in the context of the socio-political circumstances of Punjab/India without fixating him into any fixed framework.