My Family's Triumphant Escape from India's Caste System
My Family's Triumphant Escape from India's Caste System
In the tradition of "Kaffir Boy," this international bestseller "captures the life of India's villages and Bombay's slums with an anthropologist's precision and a novelist's humanity" ("Asia Times")
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For thousands of years the untouchables, or Dalits, the people at the bottom of the Hindu caste system, have been treated as subhuman. This book tells the story of the author's family's struggle for equality and justice in India. It documents the lives of untouchables - the hunger, the cruel humiliations, the perpetual fear, and the brutal abuse.