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 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 semes ...

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 Ambedkarism is called as the teaching, ideology or philosophy of B.R. Ambedkar, an Indian econonist, polymath, barrister, social reformer, human-rights advocate, and the architect of Indian Constitution. Ambedkarism includes the principles of Nava ...

, Pawar has been involved in several Dalitbahujan social and political movements in

Maharashtra Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...

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

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