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.
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