Growing up Untouchable in India: A Dalit Autobiography
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Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
8178290898
Length
xx+203p., Maps; Figures; Plates; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index; 25cm.
Subjects
Vasant Moon's 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. Although a story of Moon's life, this book ...
