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Growing up Untouchable in India


Growing up Untouchable in India

A Dalit Autobiography
Asian Voices

von: Vasant Moon, Gail Omvedt, Eleanor Zelliot

44,99 €

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 15.07.2002
ISBN/EAN: 9780585394060
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 224

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'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
Chapter 1 The Neighborhood
<br>Chapter 2 Fearless
<br>Chapter 3 Callousness and Clouds
<br>Chapter 4 The Heat and Rain of Childhood
<br>Chapter 5 Dev Master's Curse Falls
<br>Chapter 6 Religious Hymns
<br>Chapter 7 Shooting Star
<br>Chapter 8 Chickpeas and Parched Rice
<br>Chapter 9 The Unconquered
<br>Chapter 10 Parade of Lions and Tigers
<br>Chapter 11 Foreshadowing
<br>Chapter 12 Holy Victory
<br>Chapter 13 Robust and Rollicking
<br>Chapter 14 Sports and Study
<br>Chapter 15 Pigeons and Politics
<br>Chapter 16 Climax
<br>Chapter 17 Wrath
<br>Chapter 18 Cultural Transformation
<br>Chapter 19 An Unspoiled Picture
<br>Chapter 20 The Welfare of the World
<br>Chapter 21 For What? For Books!
<br>Chapter 22 I Begin to Write
<br>Chapter 23 The End of Umar Khayam
<br>Chapter 24 Rising Moon
<br>Chapter 25 The Vows of Religion
<br>Chapter 26 Falling Star
<br>Chapter 27 Tying the Knot
<br>Chapter 28 The Spinning Top
<br>Chapter 29 Summing Up
Vasant Moon is a retired civil servant and Dalit activist. He is the editor of 17 volumes of Dr. AmbedkarOs writings and speeches in English. Gail Omvedt is a freelance writer and frequent visiting professor of sociology. Eleanor Zelliot is Laird Bell Professor of History emerita at Carleton College.
-an engaging and accessible life story covering the sweep of twentieth-century India

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