The weave of my life : a Dalit woman's memoirs /Urmilā Pawar

By: Urmilā PawarContributor(s): Maya PanditMaterial type: TextTextPublisher number: Donated by :Amiya ChaudhuriPublication details: Kolkata :Stree Publications ,2018Description: xxviii, 283 page ; 24 cmISBN: 9788185604909Subject(s): LiteratureGenre/Form: Dalits -- India -- Maharashtra -- Biography.DDC classification: 891.5 PAW Summary: Activist and award-winning writer Urmilla Pawar recounts three generations of Dalit women who struggled to overcome the burden of their caste. Dalits, or untouchables, make up India's poorest class. Forbidden from performing anything but the most undesirable and unsanitary duties, for years Dalits were believed to be racially inferior and polluted by nature and were therefore forced to live in isolated
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Activist and award-winning writer Urmilla Pawar recounts three generations of Dalit women who struggled to overcome the burden of their caste. Dalits, or untouchables, make up India's poorest class. Forbidden from performing anything but the most undesirable and unsanitary duties, for years Dalits were believed to be racially inferior and polluted by nature and were therefore forced to live in isolated

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