Description: Further DetailsTitle: JoothanCondition: NewEAN: 9780231129732ISBN: 9780231129732Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 07/02/2008Language: EnglishItem Height: 140mmItem Length: 210mmAuthor: Omprakash Valmiki, Arun Prabha MukherjeeTranslator: Arun Prabha MukherjeeContributor: Arun Prabha Mukherjee (Translated by)Subtitle: An Untouchable's LifeISBN-10: 0231129734Description: Omprakash Valmiki describes his life as an untouchable, or Dalit, in the newly independent India of the 1950s. "Joothan" refers to scraps of food left on a plate, destined for the garbage or animals. India's untouchables have been forced to accept and eat joothan for centuries, and the word encapsulates the pain, humiliation, and poverty of a community forced to live at the bottom of India's social pyramid. Although untouchability was abolished in 1949, Dalits continued to face discrimination, economic deprivation, violence, and ridicule. Valmiki shares his heroic struggle to survive a preordained life of perpetual physical and mental persecution and his transformation into a speaking subject under the influence of the great Dalit political leader, B. R. Ambedkar. A document of the long-silenced and long-denied sufferings of the Dalits, Joothan is a major contribution to the archives of Dalit history and a manifesto for the revolutionary transformation of society and human consciousness.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: FictionTopic: Society & Culture, Social Sciences, BiographyRelease Year: 2008 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Joothan
Title: Joothan
EAN: 9780231129732
ISBN: 9780231129732
Release Date: 07/02/2008
Release Year: 2008
Translator: Arun Prabha Mukherjee
Contributor: Arun Prabha Mukherjee (Translated by)
Subtitle: An Untouchable's Life
ISBN-10: 0231129734
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Fiction
Topic: Biography
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Name: Joothan : an Untouchable's Life
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Asia / General, Personal Memoirs, Asia / India & South Asia
Publication Year: 2008
Item Height: 0.1 in
Item Weight: 10.7 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Length: 0.9 in
Author: Omprakash Valmiki, Arun Prabha Mukherjee
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
