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'''''Baluta''''' ([[Marathi language|Marathi]] बलुतं) is an autobiography by the [[India]]n writer [[Daya Pawar]], written in the [[Marathi language]].<ref name="Ḍāṅgaḷe1992"> Dangale considers it a remarkable representative of the autobiography genre of Marathi Dalit literature.{{cite book|author=Arjuna Ḍāṅgaḷe|title=Poisoned bread: translations from modern Marathi Dalit literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jKy28jPKZhEC&pg=PA255|accessdate=9 March 2012|year=1992|publisher=Orient Blackswan|isbn=978-0-86311-254-6|pages=255}}</ref> According to Kalita, ''Baluta'' "introduced autobiographical writing" to [[Dalit literature]].<ref name="Kalitā2002">{{cite book|author=Arūpā Paṭaṃgīẏā Kalitā|title=Translating caste|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1PpjAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=9 March 2012|date=1 January 2002|publisher=Katha|isbn=978-81-87649-05-2|pages=241}}</ref> ''Baluta'' is seen by the ''Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature'' as an attempt by the writer to be personal yet "objective and representative", the title generalising the status of rural [[Dalit|untouchables]]. It records the writer's struggle for peace, a struggle with no chance of retaliation in "word or deed".<ref name="Datta2006">{{cite book|author=Amaresh Datta|title=The Encyclopaedia Of Indian Literature (Volume One (A To Devo)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ObFCT5_taSgC&pg=PA357|accessdate=9 March 2012|date=1 January 2006|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-1803-1|pages=357–}}</ref> An English translation by [[Jerry Pinto]] was published in 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.financialexpress.com/jobs/cast-in-stone/116197/ |title=Baluta book review: Cast in stone |last=Datta |first=Sudipta |date=August 9, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |isbn=9789385288203 |title=Baluta |last=Pawar |first=Daya |publisher=[[Speaking Tiger Books]] |translator-last1=Pinto |translator-first1=Jerry}}</ref>

==Reactions==
Rao considers that ''Baluta'', as a representative of Dalit literature, was not just a faithful narration of the Dalit experience but also an "ethical challenge" to the "caste Hindu" whom it "implicated".<ref name="Rao2009">{{cite book|author=Anupama Rao|title=The caste question: Dalits and the politics of modern India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tDRiJ3HZVPQC&pg=PA197|accessdate=9 March 2012|date=6 July 2009|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-25761-0|pages=197–}}</ref> [[Sharmila Rege]] quotes [[Urmila Pawar]], who mentions the criticism of Dalit scholars that ''Baluta'' was shameful; Urmila rejects this criticism as based on lack of understanding.<ref name="Rege2006">{{cite book|first=Sharmila |last=Rege |authorlink=Sharmila Rege|title=Writing caste, writing gender: reading Dalit women's testimonios|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Msaki69NQHsC&pg=PA292|accessdate=9 March 2012|date=2 July 2006|publisher=Zubaan|isbn=978-81-89013-01-1|pages=292}}</ref> According to ''The Encyclopaedia...'', it created the first anti-hero in [[Marathi literature]].<ref name="Datta2006"/> ''Link'' mentions that ''Baluta'' "created a sensation in the Marathi world for its frank and unique description of a life that the author lived in the ghettos of prostitutes, criminals, pimps and uprooted Dalit people, within and around the red light areas of the city of [[Mumbai|Bombay]]."<ref name="Link: Indian newsmagazine">{{cite book|title=Link: Indian newsmagazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=89YxAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=9 March 2012|year=1981|page=37}}</ref>

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[[Category:Indian autobiographies]]
[[Category:Dalit literature]]

Baluta (autobiography) - Revision history

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