Book of Donmon Teith

Hundreds of people were waiting as the train drew in from Bombay. Waving garlands, banners and lamps they roared as a smiling, orange-robed figure stepped down.

This important book presents systematic evidence of the incidence and extent of the practice of untouchability in contemporary India. It is based on the results

PART ONE1. Dalit: A New Cultural Perspective 2. Past, Future and the New Poetry of 'Untouchables' 3. The Dalit Folklore: The Three Beliefs PART TWO4. Select Pie

Sachin Kamble, a first generation educated Dalit expresses his anguish for deep-seated beliefs about caste, creed, and race in the bourgeois or middle-class soc

Contributed papers.