Joothan
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Author
Contributions
- Mukherjee, Arun Prabha. - Contributor
Publication
2003 - Columbia University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
39,500 words, Guess
Page Count
158 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL15532600M
- ISBN-100231129726
- OCLC Control Number51511246
- OCLC Control Number499092486
- OCLC Control Numberjoothan00valm_599
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2002041710
- Goodreads497544
- LibraryThing1311244
Classifications
- LCCDS422.C3 V275 2003
Description
"Omprakash Valmiki's Joothan, an autobiographical account of his birth and upbringing as an untouchable, or Dalit, in the newly independent India of the 1950s, is one of the first portrayals of Dalit life in north India from an insider's perspective. "Joothan" literally means scraps of food left on a plate, destined for the garbage or for the family pet in a middle-class urban home. It is related to the word "jootha," which means polluted, and such scraps are characterized as "joothan" only if someone else eats them. India's untouchables have been forced to accept and eat joothan for their subsistence for centuries. The word encapsulates the pain, humiliation, and poverty of this community, which has lived at the bottom of India's social pyramid for millennia. Although untouchability was legally abolished in the constitution of the newly independent India in 1949, Dalits continue to face discrimination, economic deprivation, violence, and ridicule."--Jacket.
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