Year: 2003
Type: article
Abstract: In his poignant autobiography, which also details the conditions under which he studied, Tumbadi Ramaiah (1999), a dalit 1 writer, describes his older brother's suicide that resulted from the poor treatment he received at school and of his own travails in studying.In perhaps what can be read as a commentary on the degrading and dehumanising conditions under which the marginalised study, Ramaiah describes his school bag, which was stained with the food that he carried from the school to his home.It was this food, consisting of broken wheat and rejected by his upper-caste classmates and donated to him for doing their homework that enabled him and his family to survive two years of drought-induced deprivation.An employed and socially active citizen, Ramaiah now considers his opportunity to be have been educated as the single most important factor that enabled him to escape from a life of deprivation, discrimination and humiliation.
Source: IDS Bulletin
Author: A. R. Vasavi
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2063857741