Halfway to equality (Record no. 20051)

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082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 305.5 AGG
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Aggarwal, Partap Chand
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Halfway to equality
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Delhi
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Manohar Publications
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1983
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 279p.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. This book is about educated, aspiring<br/>Harijans who have made good in<br/>different fields. Thirty people-students,<br/>government officials, university<br/>professors, journalists, engineers,<br/>doctors and other professionals, and<br/>political leaders speak for and about<br/>themselves. They talk of their family<br/>background, their education, jobs,<br/>social life, their fears and dilemmas,<br/>and their hopes for the future. Their<br/>autobiographical accounts reveal with<br/>searing simplicity what it is to be born<br/>a Harijan and how they have battled<br/>and are still battling with their<br/>environment and their own inhibitions<br/>for a better life.<br/>Many Harijans try to hide their caste<br/>identity or 'pass'. But they hardly<br/>ever fully succeed. Despite popular<br/>misconception they are quite 'visible',<br/>not in a crowd, but always to colleagues,<br/>neighbours, customers and clients.<br/>Clearly the stigma attached to their<br/>caste status still persists; colleagues<br/>often hesitate to share food with them;<br/>landlords in high caste localities refuse<br/>to rent houses to them, teachers show<br/>condescending attitude to them, insulting<br/>expressions are used with or without the<br/>conscious intent to hurt them.<br/>Education, good jobs and privileges of<br/>the Harijans have helped but have by<br/>no means removed prejudices and<br/>stereotypes of the high castes. It is for<br/>the reader, however, to judge whether<br/>they are more or less than Halfway<br/>to Equality.<br/>An intensely human document that will<br/>stir all readers, and that every educated<br/>Indian ought to read and think about.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Social classes
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