![]() ![]() The story of her life is woven around the eventual stirring of the Dalit feminist in her. ![]() Pawar’s memoir is a story that gradually unravels the story of her awakening as a Dalit girl living in a small village near Ratnagiri, and her journey from there to Mumbai. However, when there is a pattern to these several individual stories, the reader must look at the underlying social structure that allows for such oppression and violence to be perpetuated, as is depicted and illustrated in several of the memoirs of these women. Often, the upper caste critique of these memoirs has been along the lines that an individual story cannot be generalised to a community’s experience. This article will highlight some of the key aspects of the text which reveal the viewpoint of Dalit women. Urmila Pawar’s autobiographical work, Aaydaan, translated by Maya Pandit as The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman's Memoirs, is an important milestone in Dalit women’s writings. ![]()
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