Growing up untouchable in India: a Dalit autobiography

By:

Moon, Vasant

Publication details: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000 Lanham,maryland:Description: xviii,203p. pbk,ill 25cmISBN:

9780742508811

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

305.568 MOO

Summary: Translated from the Marathi by Gail Omvedt, Growing Up Untouchable in India is the first Dalit autobiography to be published in English. Moon s story is about his vasti, or neighborhood, and a community of people considered to be at the bottom of the caste hierarchy. It reveals a complex yet rich slum culture where Dalits are not seen merely as victims but as a community with strong bonds, striving and struggling to shed their sense of inferiority. The book provides an insider s insight into the struggles, pain, joys, and victories of people in the vasti where Moon grew up. Though this is the story of Moon s life, it develops into a rich narrative about the social and political history of the time. The story of an individual and a community has been woven into the larger realm of Indian politics, providing the readers a rare view of the events that led up to Independence. https://www.amazon.in/Growing-Untouchable-India-Autobiography-Voices/dp/0742508811

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Translated from the Marathi by Gail Omvedt, Growing Up Untouchable in India is the first Dalit autobiography to be published in English. Moon s story is about his vasti, or neighborhood, and a community of people considered to be at the bottom of the caste hierarchy. It reveals a complex yet rich slum culture where Dalits are not seen merely as victims but as a community with strong bonds, striving and struggling to shed their sense of inferiority. The book provides an insider s insight into the struggles, pain, joys, and victories of people in the vasti where Moon grew up. Though this is the story of Moon s life, it develops into a rich narrative about the social and political history of the time. The story of an individual and a community has been woven into the larger realm of Indian politics, providing the readers a rare view of the events that led up to Independence.

https://www.amazon.in/Growing-Untouchable-India-Autobiography-Voices/dp/0742508811

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