Viramma, Life of an Untouchable

Viramma, Life of an Untouchable
Title Viramma, Life of an Untouchable PDF eBook
Author Viramma
Publisher Verso
Pages 336
Release 1997
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9781859848173

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Viramma is an agricultural worker and midwife in Karani, a village near Pondicherry in southeast India. Viramma is a member of the caste called Untouchable. Of her 12 children, only three survive. Viramma's story--told over the course of 10 years--is a vivid portrayal of a proud and expressive woman living at the margins of society. 12 photos.

Viramma: Life Of A Dalit

Viramma: Life Of A Dalit
Title Viramma: Life Of A Dalit PDF eBook
Author Viramma
Publisher
Pages 331
Release 2005-01-01
Genre
ISBN 9788187358190

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This is the first Indian edition of this remarkable book, which created a great impact in France and was subsequently translated into English and Italian. The Indian edition carries a fresh Afterword by Jean-Luc and Josiane Racine.

Growing up Untouchable in India

Growing up Untouchable in India
Title Growing up Untouchable in India PDF eBook
Author Vasant Moon
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages 225
Release 2002-07-15
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0585394067

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'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

Telling Lives in India

Telling Lives in India
Title Telling Lives in India PDF eBook
Author David Arnold
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 342
Release 2004-12-30
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780253217271

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Considers the meaning and nature of life history narrative in India.

Joothan

Joothan
Title Joothan PDF eBook
Author Omprakash Valmiki
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 209
Release 2008-07-02
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0231503377

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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.

Flesh and Fish Blood

Flesh and Fish Blood
Title Flesh and Fish Blood PDF eBook
Author Subramanian Shankar
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 205
Release 2012-07-02
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0520952340

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In Flesh and Fish Blood Subramanian Shankar breaks new ground in postcolonial studies by exploring the rich potential of vernacular literary expressions. Shankar pushes beyond the postcolonial Anglophone canon and works with Indian literature and film in English, Tamil, and Hindi to present one of the first extended explorations of representations of caste, including a critical consideration of Tamil Dalit (so-called untouchable) literature. Shankar shows how these vernacular materials are often unexpectedly politically progressive and feminist, and provides insight on these oft-overlooked—but nonetheless sophisticated—South Asian cultural spaces. With its calls for renewed attention to translation issues and comparative methods in uncovering disregarded aspects of postcolonial societies, and provocative remarks on humanism and cosmopolitanism, Flesh and Fish Blood opens up new horizons of theoretical possibility for postcolonial studies and cultural analysis.

Dalit Women

Dalit Women
Title Dalit Women PDF eBook
Author S. Anandhi
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 369
Release 2017-05-18
Genre Law
ISBN 1351797190

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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: We ask you to rethink: Different Dalit women and their subaltern politics -- Part I Imagining a new Dalit women's politics -- 1 Foreword: Dalits, Dalit women and the Indian State -- 2 For another difference: Agency, representation and Dalit women in contemporary India -- Part II Dalit women's conceptualizations of caste difference and their means of collectivization -- 3 Gendered negotiations of caste identity: Dalit women's activism in rural Tamil Nadu -- 4 Liberation panthers and pantheresses? Gender and Dalit party politics in South India -- 5 Microcredit self-help groups and Dalit women: Overcoming or essentializing caste difference? -- Part III A broken empowerment? Are women still trapped by caste and patriarchy? -- 6 Dalit women, rape and the revitalisation of patriarchy? -- 7 Different Dalit women speak differently: Unravelling, through an intersectional lens, narratives of agency and activism from everyday life in rural Uttar Pradesh -- 8 Subsidising capitalism and male labour: The scandal of unfree Dalit female labour relations -- Part IV Religion as Dalit political practice -- 9 Transformation and the suffering subject: Caste-class and gender in slum Pentecostal discourse -- 10 Improper politics: The praxis of subalterns in Chennai -- Afterword: The burden of caste: Scholarship, democratic movements and activism