The present study is an attempt to explore how routine violence brings the exceptional violence of the past into the Dalit consciousness and degrades it. For this purpose, we have taken B. Jeyamohan’s A Hundred Armchairs (2022), a story about an individual from the Nayadi community, to understand and extract the descriptions of trauma caused by both corporeal and psychological violence. We employ Gyanendra Pandey’s idea of routine violence, Marice Halbwachs’ understanding of collective memory, and Aleida Assmann’s concept of memory and violence to understand the dialectics of the banal and subtle violence of the modern and the eventful violence of the past as played out in Dalit consciousness. By exploring the degraded consciousness of the protagonist, we hope to depart from the binary conception of Dalit literature as Literatures of victimhood or Literatures of Resistance. Rather, we posit Jeyamohan’s A Hundred Armchairs as Literature of Trauma that grapples with the everyday violence and engages with the brutal violence of the past.