Coming out as Dalit : a memoir of surviving India's caste system
Dutt, Yashica2024
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In Coming Out as Dalit, Dutt recounts the exhausting burden of living with the secret and how she was terrified of being found out. 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. 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.
Main title:
Coming out as Dalit : a memoir of surviving India's caste system / Yashica Dutt.
Author:
Dutt, Yashica, author
Edition:
Expanded edition.
Imprint:
Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2024]©2024.
Collation:
xii, 251 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"A previous version of this book was published in India in 2019 by Aleph Book Company" -- Colophon.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780807045282 (hardcover)9780807045299 (ebook)
Dewey class:
305.5688092B/DUT
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1993976