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Chandu Maheria Hemang Ashwinkumar
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Hardback
Number of Pages
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Age Group
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Language
English
Book Summary
A pioneering voice of Gujarati Dalit literature, Chandu Maheria has written and edited dozens of books, published thousands of op-eds and organized political movements in a lifelong campaign against caste discrimination. His work moves between thought and action, tracing a life shaped as much by books as by the streets. In this autobiographical account, he charts his journey from grinding poverty in the working-class chawls of east Ahmedabad to a life of reading, writing and political struggle. Translated into English for the first time, Maheriaโs writings lay bare the everyday violence of caste prejudice in India, while also capturing a turbulent historical moment in 1980s Gujarat, marked by mass migration, communal tensions and anti-reservation riots. At the same time, his memoir is grounded in intimate detail and lived reality: the daily humiliation of public toilets, children growing up without footwear, chronic hunger, a fatherโs late-life militant atheism, a motherโs austere resolve and the authorโs recurring encounters with illness and mortality. Alongside this personal history runs the story of Maheriaโs intellectual formation, from his unsparing engagement with Gandhiโs complex legacy to his arguments with fellow Dalit thinkers. The result is a book that is at once a record of deprivation, a political education and a sustained reckoning with the power structures that continue to divide contemporary India.
Product Details
Author
Chandu Maheria Hemang Ashwinkumar
Publisher
Harper Collins
Number of Pages
256
Language
English
SKU
9789353459383
ISBN
9789353459383
Reading Age
All
Binding
Hardback
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