Urmila Pawar,Meenakshi Moon,Wandana Sonalkar
Originally published in Marathi in 1989, this contemporary classic details the history of womenâ€™s participation in Dr. B. R. Ambedkarâ€™s Dalit movement for the first time. Focusing on the involvement of women in various Dalit struggles since the early twentieth century, the book goes on to consider the social conditions of Dalit womenâ€™s lives, daily religious practices and marital rules, the practice of ritual prostitution, and womenâ€™s issues. Drawing on diverse sources including periodicals, records of meetings, and personal correspondence, the latter half of the book is composed of interviews with Dalit women activists from the 1930s. These first-hand accounts from more than forty Dalit women make the book an invaluable resource for students of caste, gender, and politics in India. A rich store of material for historians of the Dalit movement and gender studies in India, ,We Also Made History, remains a fundamental text of the modern womenâ€™s movement.
Nonfiction,Cultural,India,History,Feminism,Womens,Sociology
We Also Made History: Women in the Ambedkarite Movement