Joothan

Author : Omprakash Valmiki,Arun Prabha Mukherjee
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780231503372

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Joothan by Omprakash Valmiki,Arun Prabha Mukherjee Pdf

Omprakash Valmiki describes his life as an untouchable, or Dalit, in the newly independent India of the 1950s. "Joothan" refers to scraps of food left on a plate, destined for the garbage or animals. India's untouchables have been forced to accept and eat joothan for centuries, and the word encapsulates the pain, humiliation, and poverty of a community forced to live at the bottom of India's social pyramid. Although untouchability was abolished in 1949, Dalits continued to face discrimination, economic deprivation, violence, and ridicule. Valmiki shares his heroic struggle to survive a preordained life of perpetual physical and mental persecution and his transformation into a speaking subject under the influence of the great Dalit political leader, B. R. Ambedkar. A document of the long-silenced and long-denied sufferings of the Dalits, Joothan is a major contribution to the archives of Dalit history and a manifesto for the revolutionary transformation of society and human consciousness.

Author : Pratyusha Guha
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9783668275447

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"Joothan: A Dalit's Life" by Omprakash Valmiki. A Book Review by Pratyusha Guha Pdf

Literature Review from the year 2016 in the subject History - Asia, grade: 8, Presidency College, Kolkata, language: English, abstract: The malicious practice of the Caste system has formed an essence of Indian society, without any parallel of the same significance. The Caste system has consolidated a hierarchical division of society in which people are subjected to various privileges or discrimination, owing to their birth in a family belonging to a particular caste. Whether the caste system was a colonial construction or an ancient curse requires a separate debate. In this paper, an autobiography by Omprakash Valmiki, who was said to be a "Dalit" (an outcaste, belonging to the lowest echelon of society), has been reviewed. In it he has described daily struggles in the life of a low-born. While the world had cheered the process of decolonization and applauded the new notions of humanitarian values and worth of every human life, India, which was soon to be the largest democracy, could hardly break away from the shackles of the loathsome caste system. Valmiki has given us insights into the functioning of Dalit lives in the post independence era, that brought about changes in official documents and legal procedures but without much resonance of them in practical application.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09
Category : Social psychology
ISBN : 8131704173

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The Individual and Society by Anonim Pdf

Author : University of Delhi
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 813170520X

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Indian Literature: An Introduction by University of Delhi Pdf

Author : Bijay Behera
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Trip by Bijay Behera Pdf

Two friend Akash and Bijay went to Nagpur to meet their old friend Anand. They met after a long time and recalled their old college days. They had fun together and enjoy it a lot but it became a twist when Anand was leaving Nagpur forever and the railway platform was the witness of their love separation between Anand and his girlfriend Neha. Though the trip was memorable, it still has some sweet and bitter memories which no one wants to recall.

Author : Ramen Goswami
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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New Eye on Research by Ramen Goswami Pdf

The book is for undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD research scholars who are pursuing their courses. They can find various modern topics related with English language and Literature; it helps them to enhance their knowledge and capabilities to think upon a research topic properly and accurately. It covers the topic like Dalitism, Feminism, gynocentricism, Black Art Movement and so on along with various Diasporic topics.

Author : Viktor Pál,Iris Borowy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000898354

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Waste and Discards in the Asia Pacific Region by Viktor Pál,Iris Borowy Pdf

This book uncovers, explores and analyses the cultural and social factors and values that lie behind waste making, recycling and disposal in the Asia Pacific region, where impressive economic growth has led to significant increases in production, consumption and concomitant waste production. This volume demonstrates the immense scope of waste as a multi-sectoral phenomenon, covering discussions on food, menstrual products, sewage, electronics, scrap, nuclear waste, plastics, and even entire villages as they are submerged underwater by dam building, considered expendable in favour of economic growth. It discusses the wide range of approaches and contexts through which people interact with waste, including socio-economic analysis, participatory observation, laboratory science, art, video, installations, literature and photography. Case studies focusing on India, China and Japan, in addition to other regional examples, demonstrate the ubiquity of waste, materially and geographically. It examines the duality of waste management, fostering community building while simultaneously excluding marginalised groups; how it can be linked to efforts creating circular economies, to then reappear in oceanic garbage patches; or technical waste repurposed for high-tech laboratory research before being discarded once again. This timely and wide-ranging collection of essays will be an important read for scholars, researchers and students in sustainability, development studies, discard studies, and social and cultural history, particularly focusing on countries in the Asia-Pacific.

Author : Mahasweta Devi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134711697

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Imaginary Maps by Mahasweta Devi Pdf

Imaginary Maps presents three stories from noted Bengali writer Mahasweta Devi in conjunction with readings of these tales by famed cultural and literary critic, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Weaving history, myth and current political realities, these stories explore troubling motifs in contemporary Indian life through the figures and narratives of indigenous tribes in India. At once delicate and violent, Devi's stories map the experiences of the "tribals" and tribal life under decolonization. In "The Hunt," "Douloti the Bountiful" and the deftly wrought allegory of tribal agony "Pterodactyl, Pirtha, and Puran Sahay," Ms. Devi links the specific fate of tribals in India to that of marginalized peoples everywhere. Gayatri Spivak's readings of these stories connect the necessary "power lines" within them, not only between local and international structures of power (patriarchy, nationalisms, late capitalism), but also to the university.

Author : Richard Bach
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1970-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780684846842

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach Pdf

Allegory about a sea gull who seeks to attain perfect flight. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Sujatha Gidla
Publisher : Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780865478114

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Ants Among Elephants by Sujatha Gidla Pdf

Like one in six people in India, Sujatha Gidla was born an untouchable. While most untouchables are illiterate, her family was educated by Canadian missionaries in the 1930s, making it possible for Gidla to attend elite schools and move to America at the age of twenty-six. It was only then that she saw how extraordinary -- and yet how typical -- her family history truly was. Her mother and uncles were born in the last days of British colonial rule. They grew up in a world marked by poverty and injustice, but also full of possibility. The Independence movement promised freedom. Yet for untouchables and other poor people, little changed. In rich, novelistic prose, Ants Among Elephants tells Gidla's extraordinary family story detailing her uncle's emergence as a poet and revolutionary and her mother's struggle for emancipation through education.

Author : M.J Akbar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-05-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134452590

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The Shade of Swords by M.J Akbar Pdf

The Shade of Swords is the first cohesive history of Jihad, written by one of India's leading journalists and writers. In this paperback edition, updated to show how and why Saddam Hussein repositioned himself as a Jihadi against America, M.J. Akbar explains the struggle between Islam and Christianity. Placing recent events in a historical context, he tackles the tricky question of what now for Jihad following the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime. With British and American troops in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and once again in Iraq, the potential for Jihadi recruitment is ever increasing. Explaining how Jihad thrives on complex and shifting notions of persecution, victory and sacrifice, and illustrating how Muslims themselves have historically tried both to direct and control the phenomenon of Jihad, Akbar shows how Jihad pervades the mind and soul of Islam, revealing its strength and significance. To know the future, one needs to understand the past. M.J. Akbar's The Shade of Swords holds the key.

Author : Kusuma Satyanarayanan,Joel Lee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192688828

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Concealing Caste by Kusuma Satyanarayanan,Joel Lee Pdf

The caste system is supposed to be inescapable-you cannot change the caste into which you are born. But are there ways to elude the system? Concealing Caste tells the stories of women and men in India who, though born into communities stigmatized as 'untouchable,' are perceived by others as 'high caste.' Like the literature on racial passing in the American context, the short stories and autobiographical essays in this volume reveal the inner workings of a vicious social order, illuminating the contradictions of caste hierarchy through the experience of those who clandestinely transgress its boundaries. Concealing Caste is the first collection of Dalit writings focused on this public secret. Bringing together Dalit literature from Marathi, Telugu, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, English and Malayalam-including stories and essays never before translated-this landmark anthology illustrates the agonizing choices and at times devastating consequences faced by Dalits who experiment with identity in a society shot through with the principle of birth-based inequality.

Author : Tanmoy Baghira & Ananya Mukherjee
Publisher : Tanmoy Baghira & Ananya Mukherjee
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788194885009

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Body Politics Rethinking Gender and Masculinity by Tanmoy Baghira & Ananya Mukherjee Pdf

The research on men and masculinities traces back to the women’s and gay liberation movements that challenged existing understandings of gender and power. This proposes to look into gender as socially constructed than what was earlier thought to be biological. As a logical extension of Feminism, Masculinity Studies looks into sex/gender as a discursive social construct and tries to understand them through theoretical hermeneutics. Instead of considering masculinity to be ‘natural character type’, ‘a behavioural average’ or ‘a norm’, the focus should be given to the process through which the gendered bodies perform. In this regard, sex/gender is not fixed, instead is in a continuous flux; thus, masculinity should be recognised as a gender presentation that is continuously transforming and evolving. This volume, Body Politics: Rethinking Gender and Masculinity will engage with the current developments in the field of Masculinity Studies and will try to diversify the issues of gender and masculinity.

Author : Jonathan A.C. Brown
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781786073082

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Hadith by Jonathan A.C. Brown Pdf

Contrary to popular opinion, the bulk of Islamic law does not come from the Quran but from hadith, first-hand reports of the Prophet Muhammad’s words and deeds, passed from generation to generation. However, with varying accounts often only committed to paper a century after the death of Muhammad, Islamic scholars, past and present, have been faced with complex questions of historical authenticity. In this wide-ranging introduction, Jonathan A. C. Brown explores the collection and criticism of hadith, and the controversy surrounding its role in modern Islam. This edition, revised and updated with additional case studies and attention to the very latest scholarship, also features a new chapter on how hadiths have been used politically, both historically and in the Arab Spring and its aftermath. Informative and accessible, it is perfectly suited to students, scholars and general readers interested in this critical element of Islam.

Author : French, Patrick,Patrick French
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141947006

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India by French, Patrick,Patrick French Pdf

One of this century's greatest surprises has been the economic and social revolution in India. A country long characterized by such adjectives as 'timeless', 'spiritual' and 'backward' is now viewed through a new set of clichés: 'hi-tech', 'materialistic', 'go-getting'. But what is the real nature of this rapid change, and what are its roots? Patrick French has spent much of his life engaged with India, and his landmark new book is filled with the qualities that have won his writing exceptional praise: his love of narrative, sympathy for the individual's experience, scepticism about official claims, and relish for the mayhem of political life. His account of Indian independence, Liberty or Death, is an acclaimed bestseller. Now he gives us an encompassing social, political and economic history of India from partition to the present day. Examining the cultural foundations that made India's accelerated transformation from socialist economy to capitalist powerhouse possible, French creates a vivid, surprising picture of what it is like to live at a time when millions have pulled themselves free of poverty - with fortunes made almost overnight - but where violence, corruption and caste prejudice have equally been given new outlets. He delves into Indian society and politics, including the personal story of one of the most powerful women in the world, Sonia Gandhi. And he travels the country's regions to show how Nehru's vision of a democratic, secular India has continued to attempt - in the face of conflict and setbacks - to hold this vast, implacably diverse nation together. French has spoken to everyone from the nation's political leadership to Maoist revolutionaries and mafia dons, from chained quarry workers to self-made billionaire entrepreneurs and technological innovators. The result is a richly detailed, wide-ranging and hugely rewarding portrait of India.