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Daya Pawar or Dagdu Maruti Pawar (1935 –20 September 1996) was an Indian Marathi language author and poet known for his contributions to Dalit literature that dealt with the atrocities experienced by the dalits or untouchables under the Hindu caste system.
Nov 12, 2017 · Daya Pawar authored the seminal Baluta, considered the first autobiography in Dalit literature. Advertisement. Editor’s note: Under the norms of the caste system, Dalits were denied the pen. Before the advent of Dalit literature in India, much of Dalit history was oral in nature.
Aug 2, 2015 · Daya Pawar. Every weekend, eight-year-old Pradnya Pawar loved nothing more than to listen in on the conversations between her father and his friends in their house along the Oshiwara creek in suburban Bombay. When the adults went out, she would skim through their notes and read the poetry they had written, not understanding a word.
Sep 23, 2018 · Writer Daya Pawar was born on September 15 in 1935, the same year that Babasaheb Ambedkar announced his decision to convert from Hinduism. A senior auditor with the Indian Railways, Pawar...
Daya Pawar or Dagdu Maruti Pawar (1935 [1]–20 December 1996 [2]) was born to a Mahar Dalit family in Dhamangaon (Taluka: Akole, District: Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India), was a Marathi author and poet known for his contributions to Dalit literature that dealt with the atrocities experienced by the dalits or untouchables under the Hindu caste sys...
Baluta (Marathi बलुतं) is an autobiography by the Indian writer Daya Pawar, written in the Marathi language. According to Kalita, Baluta "introduced autobiographical writing" to Dalit literature.
Baluta is the first Dalit autobiography written by Daya Pawar, published in 1978. Originally written in Marathi and took a long time of about two scores to be translated into English in 2015 by Jerry Pinto.
Jul 16, 2015 · Daya Pawar tells his story, of a Mahar in Maharashtra, showing us his scars and warts, his pride and shame. He reclaims his humanity and leaves us with a historic debt.
Daya Pawar (1935-1996) was born in Dhamangaon, Maharashtra in 1935. Primarily a poet, he published his first poem in the Dalit literary journal Asmitadarsh in 1967. His first collection of poems, Kondvada, appeared in 1974 and won the Maharashtra Government Award for literature.
Yet, Daya Pawar is considered by many as the effective most articulator of the woes and agonies of a dalit generation which had witnessed momentous events. changing their own lives and the life of the country. NO, he is not the middle-of-the- road fence-sitter.
