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Part II of Concealing Caste: Passing and Personhood in Dalit Literature contains autobiographical writings by Dalit authors addressing the theme of hidden identity. This chapter is a selection from Omprakash Valmiki’s celebrated Hindi-language autobiography Joothan, translated here by Joel Lee. In the selection, Valmiki describes his experience as a twenty-something apprentice draftsman at the Ordnance Factory Training Institutes of Jabalpur and then Ambarnath on the outskirts of (then) Bombay—places very far removed from his childhood experiences in an Uttar Pradesh village. In Ambarnath, Valmiki is befriended by the Kulkarnis, a Maharashtrian brahmin family. As Valmiki and Savita—the daughter of the family—grow close, it emerges that the Kulkarnis have assumed Valmiki is brahmin, creating a delicate situation.
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Abstract
Part II of Concealing Caste: Passing and Personhood in Dalit Literature contains autobiographical writings by Dalit authors addressing the theme of hidden identity.
This chapter is a selection from Omprakash Valmiki’s celebrated Hindi-language autobiography Joothan, translated here by Joel Lee.
In the selection, Valmiki describes his experience as a twenty-something apprentice draftsman at the Ordnance Factory Training Institutes of Jabalpur and then Ambarnath on the outskirts of (then) Bombay—places very far removed from his childhood experiences in an Uttar Pradesh village.
In Ambarnath, Valmiki is befriended by the Kulkarnis, a Maharashtrian brahmin family.
As Valmiki and Savita—the daughter of the family—grow close, it emerges that the Kulkarnis have assumed Valmiki is brahmin, creating a delicate situation.
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