Woven from personal narratives from her own life as well as that of other Dalits, this book forces us to confront the injustices of caste and also serves as a call to action. Yashica Dutt is a New York-based journalist who writes on gender, identity and culture. This fear was not just a feeling that the writer grew up with, but remained with her until she openly came out with her identity through her book, sitting. Sociologist and human rights activist Gail Omvedt in her book Dalits and the Democratic Revolution: Dr Ambedkar and the Dalit Movement in Colonial India (1994) looks at the work of anthropologists such as Gregory Possehl, Morton Klass and Morton Fried to see how caste groups came about. In this personal memoir that is also a narrative of the Dalits, she writes about the journey of coming to terms with her identity and takes us through the history of the Dalit movement the consequences of her community s lack of access to education and culture the need for reservation the paucity of Dalit voices in mainstream media Dalit women s movements and their ongoing contributions and attempts to answer crucial questions about caste and privilege. Coming out as Dalit (English, Hardcover, unknown) Author Info. As she began to understand the inequities of the caste system, she also had to deal with the crushing guilt of denying her history and the struggles of her grandparents and the many Dalit reformers who fought for equal rights. -Buy Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir book online at best prices in India on Bookish Santa and enjoy Free Shipping. She talks about the tremendous feeling of empowerment she experienced when she finally stood up for herself and her community and shrugged off the fake upper-caste identity she d had to construct for herself. In Coming Out as Dalit, Dutt recounts the exhausting burden of living with the secret and how she was terrified of being found out. For Yashica Dutt, a journalist living in New York, this was the moment to stop living a lie, and admit to something that she had hidden from friends and colleagues for over a decade that she was Dalit. Dalit student Rohith Vemula s tragic suicide in January 2016 started many charged conversations around caste-based discrimination in universities in India.

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