Coming out as Dalit : a memoir of surviving India's caste system
(2024)

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PUBLISHED
Random House Inc [2024]
Boston : Beacon Press, [2024]
EDITION
Expanded edition
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pages cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780807045282, 0807045284 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"A previous version of this book was published in India in 2019 by Aleph Book Company."

The Early Years -- The Caste System : How It Began -- Education and Financial Strife -- Humiliation in Mussoorie -- The Reality of Untouchability -- The Long Road to St. Stephen's -- The Argument for Reservation -- Culture Cache and Onward to Columbia --Dalit Movements and Ambedkar's Legacy -- My Introduction to Ambedkar -- Dalit Women's Movements -- The Danger of the Single Narrative -- Silicon Valley, Model Minority, and the Myth of Caste-lessness -- The Reckoning of Caste in Tech

"For readers of Caste, the coming-of-age story of a Dalit individual that illuminates systemic injustice in India and its growing impact on U.S. society"--

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