TY - BOOK AU - Urmilā Pawar AU - Maya Pandit TI - The weave of my life : : a Dalit woman's memoirs SN - 9788185604909 U1 - 891.5 PAW PY - 2018/// CY - Kolkata PB - :Stree Publications KW - Literature KW - Dalits -- India -- Maharashtra -- Biography KW - Political activists N2 - 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 ER -