Interrogating My Chandal Life: An Autobiography of a Dalit - Couverture souple

Byapari, Manoranjan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9381345139 ISBN 13 : 9789381345139

Editeur : SAGE Samya, 2018

Synopsis

An autobiographical account of struggle from the poorest of the poor to achieve self-respect and win others' respect, against all odds.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Manoranjan Byapari never went to school or university. He first wrote for little magazines where his success and popularity found him many publishers. His writing career took place as he worked as a cook for 21 years at the Helen Keller School for the Deaf and the Blind. He is a Trinamul Congress MLA for Balagarh since the 2021 West Bengal Vidhan Sabha elections. He has received many awards such as the Suprabha Majumdar Smarak Puraskar by the Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi in 2014, the television channel 24 Ghonta’s Ananya Samman in 2013 and in 2019 the Hindu Literary Fest’s nonfiction award. He is well known across India as he speaks in Hindi that he learnt in Chhatisgarh when he was with the Mukti Morcha of the late Shankar Guha Neogi.

Sipra Mukherjee is Professor, Department of English, West Bengal State University. Her research interests are religion, caste and power. Her interest in literatures of the margins began with research into early missionary journals of Northeast India. She has since worked on small religious sects and is presently trying to archive the local cultures of North 24-Parganas at her university. She has published with Brill, Oxford University Press, McGillQueen’s University Press, SAGE, Sahitya Akademi, Ravi Dayal, Routledge and Permanent Black.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Samya
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9381345139
• ISBN 13: 9789381345139
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 382
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible