Growing up Untouchable in India
A Dalit Autobiography
By (author) Vasant Moon, Gail Omvedt, Eleanor Zelliot
Publication date:
20 December 2000Length of book:
224 pagesPublisher
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersISBN-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....