Growing up untouchable in India :
Moon, Vasant.
Growing up untouchable in India : a dalit autobiography / Vasant Moon ; translated from the Marathi by Gail Omvedt ; with an introduction by Eleanor Zelliot. - Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2000. - xviii, 203 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. - Asian voices . - Asian voices (Rowman and Littlefield, Inc.) .
Includes bibliographic references (p. 193-194) and index.
1. Neighborhood --
2. Fearless --
3. Callousness and Clouds --
4. Heat and Rain --
5. Dev Master's Curse Fails --
6. Religious Hymns --
7. Shooting Star --
8. Chickpeas and Parched Rice --
9. Unconquered --
10. Parade of Lions and Tigers --
11. Foreshadowing --
12. Holy Victory --
13. Robust and Rollicking --
14. Sports and Study --
15. Politics and Pigeons --
16. Climax --
17. Wrath --
18. Cultural Transformation --
19. Unspoiled Picture --
20. Welfare of the World --
21. For What? For Books! --
22. I Begin to Write --
23. End of Omar Khayyam --
24. Rising Moon --
25. Vows of Religion --
26. Falling Star --
27. Tying the Knot --
28. Spinning Top --
29. Summing Up.
Explores growing up in the slums of central India. What makes this account uniquely Indian is the caste system, the rise of the champion of the poor, Dr. Ambedkar, and the forces of nature as in the coming of the monsoons.
9780742508811 (pbk.)
00032847
Dalits--India.
People with social disabilities--India.
India--Scheduled tribes.
305.568 MOO / 008726
Growing up untouchable in India : a dalit autobiography / Vasant Moon ; translated from the Marathi by Gail Omvedt ; with an introduction by Eleanor Zelliot. - Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2000. - xviii, 203 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. - Asian voices . - Asian voices (Rowman and Littlefield, Inc.) .
Includes bibliographic references (p. 193-194) and index.
1. Neighborhood --
2. Fearless --
3. Callousness and Clouds --
4. Heat and Rain --
5. Dev Master's Curse Fails --
6. Religious Hymns --
7. Shooting Star --
8. Chickpeas and Parched Rice --
9. Unconquered --
10. Parade of Lions and Tigers --
11. Foreshadowing --
12. Holy Victory --
13. Robust and Rollicking --
14. Sports and Study --
15. Politics and Pigeons --
16. Climax --
17. Wrath --
18. Cultural Transformation --
19. Unspoiled Picture --
20. Welfare of the World --
21. For What? For Books! --
22. I Begin to Write --
23. End of Omar Khayyam --
24. Rising Moon --
25. Vows of Religion --
26. Falling Star --
27. Tying the Knot --
28. Spinning Top --
29. Summing Up.
Explores growing up in the slums of central India. What makes this account uniquely Indian is the caste system, the rise of the champion of the poor, Dr. Ambedkar, and the forces of nature as in the coming of the monsoons.
9780742508811 (pbk.)
00032847
Dalits--India.
People with social disabilities--India.
India--Scheduled tribes.
305.568 MOO / 008726