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" Joothan : "
Omprakash Valmiki ; translated by Arun Prabha Mukherjee.
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BL
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1010677
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b765047
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| Uniform Title
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Joothan.English
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| Main Entry
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Vālmīki, Omaprakāśa,1950-2013.
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Joothan : : a dalit's life /\ Omprakash Valmiki ; translated by Arun Prabha Mukherjee.
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New York :: Columbia University Press,, ©2003.
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1 online resource (xlviii, 158 pages) :: 1 map
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0231503377
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: 9780231503372
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0231129726
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0231129734
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9780231129725
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9780231129732
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Abstract
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"Omprakash Valmiki's Joothan, an autobiographical account of his birth and upbringing as an untouchable, or Dalit, in the newly independent India of the 1950s, is one of the first portrayals of Dalit life in north India from an insider's perspective. "Joothan" literally means scraps of food left on a plate, destined for the garbage or for the family pet in a middle-class urban home. It is related to the word "jootha," which means polluted, and such scraps are characterized as "joothan" only if someone else eats them. India's untouchables have been forced to accept and eat joothan for their subsistence for centuries. The word encapsulates the pain, humiliation, and poverty of this community, which has lived at the bottom of India's social pyramid for millennia. Although untouchability was legally abolished in the constitution of the newly independent India in 1949, Dalits continue to face discrimination, economic deprivation, violence, and ridicule."--Jacket.
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Dalits-- India-- History.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Personal Memoirs.
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Dalits.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Social Classes.
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India.
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305.5/122/0954
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DS422.C3V275 2003eb
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Mukherjee, Arun Prabha.
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