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Untouchable - An Indian Life History (Paperback)
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Untouchable - An Indian Life History (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: British in India
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Nearly 16% of India's population - or over 100 million people - are
untouchables. Most of them, despite decades of government efforts
to improve their economic and social position, remain desperately
poor, illiterate, subject to brutal discrimination and economic
exploitation, and with no prospect for improvement of their
condition. This is the autobiography, first published in 1979, of
Muli, a 40-year-old untouchable of the Bauri caste, living in the
Indian state of Orissa, as told to an American anthropologist. Muli
is a narrator who combines rich descriptions of daily life with
perceptive observations of his social surroundings. He describes
with absorbing detail what it is like to be at the bottom of Indian
life, and what happens when an untouchable attempts to break out of
his accepted role.
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