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100			_aByapari, Manoranjan _92519
245			_aInterrogating my chandal life: an autobiography of a Dalit
260			_bRupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd. _aNew Delhi _c2018
300			_axxii, 356 p.
365			_aINR _b595.00
504			_aTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgements A Note by the Translator East Bengal, Partition and West Bengal Dandakaranya Rehabilitation Project, Food Riots and Calcutta I Run Away from Home My Lone Travels across East and North India On the Road for Five Years Return to Kolkata My Entry into the Naxal Movement To Dandakaranya and Back to a Changed Calcutta Life on and around the Railway Station A Bomb Explodes in Barddhaman Into Jail and into the World of Letters A Rickshaw-wallah’s Meeting with Mahasweta Devi A Girl from the Past Marichjhap To Dandakaranya, Dalli and Bastar Chhatisgarh, Mukti Morcha and Shankar Guha Neogi After Shankar Guha Neogi Epilogue Notes Index
520			_aDescription Winner of The Hindu Prize 2018 (Non-fiction) Shortlisted for the 3rd JIO MAMI Word to Screen Award 2018 If you insist that you do not know me, let me explain myself … you will feel, why, yes, I do know this person. I’ve seen this man. With these words, Manoranjan Byapari points to the inescapable roles all of us play in an unequal society. Interrogating My Chandal Life: An Autobiography of a Dalit is the translation of his remarkable memoir Itibritte Chandal Jivan. It talks about his traumatic life as a child in the refugee camps of West Bengal and Dandakaranya, facing persistent want—an experience that would dominate his life. The book charts his futile flight from home to escape hunger, in search of work as a teenager around the country, only to face further exploitation. In Kolkata in the 1970s, as a young man, he got caught up in the Naxalite movement and took part in gang warfare. His world changed dramatically when he was taught the alphabet in prison at the age of 24—it drew him into a new, enticing world of books. After prison, he worked as a rickshaw-wallah and one day the writer Mahasweta Devi happened to be his passenger. It was she who led him to his first publication. Today, as Sipra Mukherjee points out, ‘issues of poverty, hunger and violence have exploded the cautiously sewn boundaries of the more affluent world’, rendering archaic the comfortable distances between them. Despite ‘Chandal’ explicitly referring to a Dalit caste, this narrative weaves in and out of the margins.
650			_aBiography - Dalit _92627
650			_aBiography - Tribes _92628
700			_a Mukherjee, Sipra [Translator] _92629
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