01709nam a22002297a 450000500170000000800410001702000150005804000070007304100080008008200210008810000300010924500280013926000310016730000290019836500350022752010070026265000330126970000320130294200120133499900190134695201140136520230624121656.0230624b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a8185604630  cAL  aeng  223a305.51bVALJ  aOmprakash Valmiki9124795  aJoothan:bA Dalits Life  aKolkatabMandira Senc2003  axlii,134p.bPBc21x14cm.  2Sociologyb185.00c₹d185.00  aOmprakash Valmiki describes his life as an untouchable, or Dalit, in the newly independent India of the 1950s. "Joothan" refers to scraps of food left on a plate, destined for the garbage or animals. India's untouchables have been forced to accept and eat joothan for centuries, and the word encapsulates the pain, humiliation, and poverty of a community forced to live at the bottom of India's social pyramid.
Although untouchability was abolished in 1949, Dalits continued to face discrimination, economic deprivation, violence, and ridicule. Valmiki shares his heroic struggle to survive a preordained life of perpetual physical and mental persecution and his transformation into a speaking subject under the influence of the great Dalit political leader, B. R. Ambedkar. A document of the long-silenced and long-denied sufferings of the Dalits, Joothan is a major contribution to the archives of Dalit history and a manifesto for the revolutionary transformation of society and human consciousness.  aUntouchable to Dalit9124796  aVALMIKI (Omprakash)9124797  2ddccDB  c227651d227651  00102ddc40708SOCaALbALd2023-06-23l0o305.51 VALJpD05927r2023-06-24 00:00:00v185.00w2023-06-24yDB