{"product_id":"joothan-omprakash-valmiki-9780231129732","title":"Joothan: An Untouchable's Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eOmprakash 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlthough 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Omprakash Valmiki, Arun Prabha Mukherjee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231129734\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231129732\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.59w x 0.43d","brand":"Omprakash Valmiki","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981516243199,"sku":"9780231129732","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3008bc38-d78d-4788-95d4-d8e506ae5651.jpg?v=1683256042","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/joothan-omprakash-valmiki-9780231129732","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}