Growing up untouchable in India : a dalit autobiography / Vasant Moon ; translated from the Marathi by Gail Omvedt ; with an introduction by Eleanor Zelliot.

By:

Moon, Vasant

Contributor(s):

Omvedt, Gail

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: enghin Series: Asian voices (Rowman and Littlefield, Inc.)Publication details: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2000.Description: xviii, 203 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780742508811 (pbk.)

Uniform titles:

Vastī. English

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

305.568 MOO 23 008726

Online resources:

Table of contents

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, New Delhi	305.568 MOO 008726 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan		008726

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.

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