Edited and translated by David C. Buck, Kannan M.

IFP/ North Central Education Foundation, A Project of The Peden Fund, 2011, xxxviii, 158 p.

(Steles: Jean Filliozat Series in South Asian Culture and History no2)

ISBN: 978-81-8470-186-9

Until the past twenty or thirty years, Dalit people in India, traditionally the recipients of some of India's worst discrimination and oppression, did not have much of a literary voice. Now, however, there are voices representing millions of Dalits — people who certainly do speak for themselves, but many of whom cannot write for themselves, and would not be published if they did.