"For thousands of years India's dalits were abhorred as "untouchables" denied an education and treated as bonded labour. By 1923 Bhimrao Ambedkar broke the taboo, won doctorates abroad and returned to India to fight for the emancipation of his people....In 1997 a statue of Dr. Amdedkar in a Dalit colony in Mumbai was desecrated with a garland of footware. As angry residents gathered, police opened fire killing 10. Vilas Ghorge, a leftist poet, hung himself in protest. "Jai Bhim Comrade" shot over 14 years, follows the music and tradition of reason that Vilas had been a part of "--Container.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)808607614
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OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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