![]() ![]() ![]() Bhimrao Ambedkar, the famed Dalit leader who wrote the Indian Constitution, had on him as he came into a fuller sense of himself and developed a wider Dalit consciousness. It traces the intellectual development of the author, detailing the horrendous abuse he and his family faced at the hands of the upper castes who dominated life in his town, the struggle he faced to receive any kind of satisfactory education, and the life-changing effect that the works of Dr. First published in India in 1997 and in the United States in 2003, the work operates as a traditional bildungsroman transplanted to a basti of the untouchable Chuhra caste in post-independence India. Such is the case with Joothan, the autobiography of author Omprakash Valmiki. Each text presents its own challenges to the translator, but some are particularly thorny. ![]()
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