From the earliest autobiography, Baluta, by Daya Pawar, to Juthan by Omprakash Walmiki to the recent one, Interrogating My Chandal Life by Manoranjan Byapari, an important addition to the galaxy of dalit writers from the unlikely state of West Bengal, the story has been much the same. It is not the content of their accusation, which may be easily trashed by any reasonable reader, that matters but the very fact that it comes from a collective of the millennial dalits, indicating the hopeless disorientation of the dalits at a time when they face the worst crisis in modern times.Īutobiographical accounts of dalit lives generally evoke prurient interest among non-dalit readers. Seven students of Jawaharlal Nehru University accused Yengde to be opposed to Ambedkarism. It has by now received raving reviews, and also a few brickbats, the latter, paradoxically, from his own brethren. Suraj Yengde’s Caste Matters is a remarkable book providing a millennial perspective and compelling proof for the continued prevalence of casteism in modern India.
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