Manohar Mouli Biswas, Surviving in My World: Growing Up Dalit in Bengal
In recent years dalit writing has come to be an increasingly important part of the Indian literary mosaic and a movement that began in Maharashtra under the influence of Dr Ambedkar is now flourishing in Bengal, both in Bangladesh and West Bengal, though its wider readership remains reliant on tran...
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2021
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | In recent years dalit writing has come to be an increasingly important part of the Indian literary mosaic and a movement that began in Maharashtra under the influence of Dr Ambedkar is now flourishing in Bengal, both in Bangladesh and West Bengal, though its wider readership remains reliant on translation. Manohar Mouli Biswas’s Amar Bhubane Ami Benche Thaki (2013) is described in the Foreword of this edition as “one of the earliest” Bengali dalit autobiographies and “probably the first to b... |
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