![]() Taking pride in being a Dalit and realising its empowering possibilities have not been easy for Dutt. This is precisely what troubles the young journalist, Yashica Dutt, who re-signifies Dalit lives and histories through her memoir of being a Dalit and experiencing Dalitness amidst her upper class-caste friends. ![]() Under the caste system, it is not only values of purity and impurity that are attributed to these tasks but even those who are forced to perform ‘demeaning’ manual labour, Dalits and Bahujans, are continuously and violently denied their dignity and freedom. ![]() ![]() It is well known that the caste system has hierarchically placed the mental labour performed mainly by the dominant castes such as Brahmins and few other savarna castes above the manual labour performed by Dalits and Bahujan castes. DR AMBEDKAR, IN his classic text Annihilation of Caste, observed that the caste system is not a division of labour but division of labourers. ![]()
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