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J. V. Pawar
Jayram Vitthal Pawar Aka J.V. Pawar (birth; 14 July 1943 ) is a poet and novelist who co-founded the Dalit Panther organization and served as its general secretary. Biography J.V. Pawar is a poet and novelist who co-founded the Dalit Panthers and served as its general secretary. He is best known for his 1969 novel 'Balidaan' and 'Naakebandi' his 1976 collection of poems, since translated and published in English as 'Blockade'. Among his many books, he has devoted himself to documenting and analyzing the post-Ambedkar Dalit movements in several volumes. A lifelong Ambedkarite, Pawar has been involved in several Dalitbahujan social and political movements in Maharashtra. Books * Dalit Panthers * Mother India: Miss Catherine Mayo's much-loved work * Dalit Panthers: An Authoritative History * Ambedkarite Movement After Ambedkar * Blockade * Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's Social Revolution References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalit Panther
The Dalit Panthers are a social organisation that seeks to combat caste discrimination. It was led by a group of Mahar writers and poets, including Raja Dhale, Namdeo Dhasal, and J. V. Pawar in some time between the second and the third semester of 1972. The movement's heyday lasted from the 1970s through the 1980s, and it was later joined by many Dalit-Buddhist activists. History Litterateur J. V. Pawar first became interested in the activism against Dalits discrimination by the time of B. R. Ambedkar's death on 6 December 1956. "Stunned" by Ambedkar's work, he was inspired to wrote critical pieces in collaboration with poet Namdeo Dhasal. Pawar and Dhasal's attention to the Dalit question was further increased by 1971, when a special committee by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi reported on atrocities against Dalit and two Dalit women were forced to walk naked in a Maharashtra village. By mid-1972, there was a vacuum created in Dalit politics resulting from Ambedkar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
