Growing up Untouchable in India

A Dalit Autobiography

By (author) Vasant Moon, Gail Omvedt, Eleanor Zelliot

Paperback - £38.00

Publication date:

20 December 2000

Length of book:

224 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9780742508811

'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
There are few such autobiographies, especially in English, which makes Moon's memories of sleeping on village roads side by side with neighbors, of his mother waking at 4:30 a.m. to work in the mill and of the kindness of certain teachers particularly valuable....