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Title: GROWING UP UNTOUCHABLE IN INDIA
A DALIT AUTOBIOGRAPHY
By: Vasant Moon, Gail Omvedt, Eleanor Zelliot
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0742508811
ISBN 13: 9780742508811
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Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
Pub. date: 20 December, 2000
Series: Asian Voices
Pages: 224
Language: English, Hindi
Description: 'In this English translation, Moon's story is usefully framed by apparatus necessary to bring its message to even those taking their first look at South Asian culture...The result is an easy to digest short-course on what it means to be a Dalit, in the words of one notable Dalit.'-Journal of Asian Studies
Synopsis: There is much in Vasant Moon's extraordinary story of his vasti, his childhood neighbourhood in India, that would probably be true of any urban ghetto anywhere in the world. But there is much that is peculiarly and vividly Indian. In this first autobiography of a so-called Untouchable, we learn about the inescapable hierarchy imposed by caste, based on ancient principles of heriditary pollution. We see the unmatched importance of the heroic Dr. B. R. Ambedkar for India's awakened and newly ambitious Dalits. We feel, viscerally, Nagpur's heat and the joy brought by the monsoon. Vasant Moon's Vasti, the first Dalit autobiography to be published in English, is a moving and eloquent testament to a uniquely Indian life as well as to the universal human spirit.
Publication: US
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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