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‘Jevha Mi Jaat Chorli Hoti (When I Hid My Caste) was hailed as “the epic of Dalits”. These brilliant stories gave Dalits the strength to face the painful and humiliating experiences of their wretched lives...’—K Satyanarayana and Susie Tharu Baburao Bagul’s debut collection of short stories, Jevha Mi Jaat Chorli Hoti (1963), revolutionized Dalit literature, bringing to it raw energy and a radical realism—a refusal to understate or dress up gritty, brutal reality. Through the lives of people on the margins, Bagul exposed the pain, horror and rage of the Dalit experience. The unnamed young protagonist of the title story risks his life and job, and conceals his caste from his fellow workers in the hope of bringing about social change. Damu, the village Mahar, demands the right to perform a religious masque—a preserve of the upper castes—thus disrupting the village order. Jaichand Rathod revolts against his parents’ wishes and refuses to take up the caste-enforced task of manual scavenging. Years of repressed maternal love begins to resurface when, in the face of death, Banoo calls out to her estranged son. And behind Savitri’s desire for revenge lies the gruesome pain she suffered at the hands of her husband. Utterly unsparing in its depiction of the vicious and inhumane centuries-old caste system, this landmark book is now finally available in English, in a brilliant new translation by the award-winning author and translator Jerry Pinto.
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• One of the earliest collections of short stories by Baburao Bagul, a revolutionary Dalit writer, finally available in English • Jerry Pinto is an acclaimed translator and his other translations from Marathi such as Baluta and I Want to Destroy Myself have received critical acclaim from the media as well as readers • The stories, conveying the rage and pain of the Dalit experience, continue to remain relevant in the present day • Will be of interest to general readers as well as universities with courses on Dalit studies, Indian literature in translation, etc.
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‘Jevha Mi Jaat Chorli Hoti (When I Hid My Caste) was hailed as “the epic of Dalits”. These brilliant stories gave Dalits the strength to face the painful and humiliating experiences of their wretched lives...’—K Satyanarayana and Susie Tharu
Author Biography
Baburao Bagul (1930–2008) was born in the Nashik district of Maharashtra. A short-story writer, poet and essayist, he is regarded as a pioneer of modern Marathi and Dalit literature. He was among the leading lights of the radical Dalit Panthers group, together with Namdeo Dhasal and Arun Kamble. His best known works, in addition to Jevha Mi Jaat Chorli Hoti, are Maran Swasta Hot Ahe, Sud and Ambedkar Bharat. One of India’s finest and most celebrated writers, Jerry Pinto is also an acclaimed translator. He has translated from the Marathi Daya Pawar’s autobiography, Baluta; the memoirs I Want to Destroy Myself (Mala Udhvasta Vhachay) by Malika Amar Shaikh, and I, the Salt Doll (Mee Mithaachi Baahuli) by Vandana Mishra; and the novels Cobalt Blue by Sachin Kundalkar and Half-Open Windows (Khidkya Ardhya Ughadya) by Ganesh Matkari. Jerry Pinto is the recipient of, among other honours, the Sahitya Akademi Award and Yale University’s Windham-Campbell Prize.
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Copyright © Shobha Bagul
Translation and notes copyright © Jerry Pinto 2018
Introduction copyright © Shanta Gokhale 2018
Published in English by Speaking Tiger in hardback 2018
Speaking Tiger
Speaking Tiger is an independent publishing company based in New Delhi. Founded in September 2014, the company publishes a diverse list comprising quality fiction and non-fiction from South Asia and the rest of the world, with a strong emphasis on new voices.
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- Publisher Speaking Tiger
- Publication Date January 2018
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9789386702920
- Publication Country or regionIndia
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 399 INR
- Pages152
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleMarathi
- Original Language AuthorsNA
- Editionoriginal edition
- Copyright Year2018
- Dimensions7.75 x 5.1 inches
- IllustrationNA
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