Growing Up Untouchable in India - A Dalit Autobiography

Informationen zum Autor Vasant Moon is a retired civil servant and Dalit activist. He is the editor of 17 volumes of Dr. Ambedkar's 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. Klappentext '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 Zusammenfassung '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

Product details

• Authors: Vasant Moon, Vasant Omvedt Moon, Moon Vasant, Gail Omvedt, Omvedt Gail, Eleanor Zelliot
• Assisted by: Gail Omvedt (Translation)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.12.2000
• EAN: 9780742508804
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-0880-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Asian Voices; Asian Voices (Hardcover); Asian Voices; Asian Voices (Hardcover)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Autobiography: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, India, Poverty & unemployment, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Autobiography: philosophy and social sciences, Poverty and precarity