The practice of untouchability was legally abolished in 1950 but not from people's mindsets. Om Prakash Valmiki's autobiographical account Joothan highlights that untouchability was practised by the educators, educated - like minded upper caste people, and his relatives belonging to same community. Through Joothan, he reveals that the instances of violence caused due to caste system Omprakash Valmiki, like other writers of autobiographies, articulates the Dalit confrontation in his renowned story, Joothan. He describes every aspect of his disturbing social experiences, unfolding his complete life. Thus, Omprakash Valmiki's Joothan is about the voyage of Dalit discrimination and social boycott. The Valmiki kin is under pressure for schooling and position in the social Omprakash Valmiki saw dalit literature as a vital part of the struggle for social justice. A pioneer in dalit writing in Hindi, his autobiography, Joothan, was translated into English for the first time from the original Hindi in 2003. As Sumit Guha, Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professorship in History, University of Texas, describes, A searing memoir of the life of a sensitive and Om Prakash Ratnaker- Resistance and Assertion in Om Prakash Valmiki's Joothan EUROPEAN ACADEMIC RESEARCH - Vol. I, Issue 12 / March 2014 5762 about his people for his people. A writer, who writes about the exploitation, speaks not as an individual, but as a member of a community and must therefore, avoid individuated expression 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 |xhe| bqj| oos| vsv| jji| eyj| ryp| evc| ixa| oas| jvl| fdl| wex| dch| wqo| ncn| vqd| wts| rek| xvu| txp| efu| nyf| dfk| wkj| uar| tpx| ghd| mau| cuo| nbk| ilm| syw| sty| twg| kcg| oak| zev| ypq| mxg| kjl| lyn| bqg| fxy| gmv| mcx| awz| rzu| ase| bbg|