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'''''We Also Made History: Women in the Ambedkarite Movement''''' is the first book detailing the history of women's participation in the [[Dalit]] [[social movement|movement]] in [[India]], led by [[B. R. Ambedkar]].<ref name="UCP">{{cite web | url=http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/W/bo17108219.html | title=We Also Made History | publisher=University of Chicago Press press.uchicago.edu | accessdate=17 June 2016}}</ref> Originally written and edited in [[Marathi language|Marathi]] by [[Urmila Pawar]] and [[Meenakshi Moon]], and published in 1989, the 2008 English translation is by Wandana Sonalkar.<ref name="Zubaan">{{cite book | title=We Also Made History | publisher=Zubaan | author=Pawar, Urmila and Meenakshi Moon | year=2008 | pages=New Delhi |isbn=9383074744}}</ref><br />
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The book is divided into two sections: the first is a historical analysis of the participation and role of women in the Ambedkar movement, and of previous Dalit struggles in the twentieth century. The second part of the book comprises interviews and brief biographies of 45 Dalit women.<ref name="Zubaan" /> These women include [[Ramabai Bhimrao Ambedkar|Ramabai Ambedkar]], Dr. Ambedkar's first wife; [[Sulochana Dongre|Sulochanabai Dongre]], the chair of the women's conference at the founding of the All India [[Scheduled Castes Federation]] in 1942; and [[Sakhubai Mohite]], who was elected president of the All India Buddhist Women's Association in 1956, after she joined Ambedkar in [[B. R. Ambedkar#Conversion to Buddhism|converting to Buddhism]] as a protest against the Hindu caste system.<ref name="Zubaan" /><br />
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The book is described as "a treasure to Dalit and Dalit feminist studies", laying open critical issues in "feminist historiography, without resorting to abstract theoretical notions".<ref name="Hindu">{{cite news | url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-bookreview/historic-feminist-struggle/article1446525.ece | title=Historic Feminist Struggle | date=30 December 2008 | agency=The Hindu thehindu.com | accessdate=17 June 2016 | author=Mangai, A.}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Dalit]]<br />
[[Category:Feminist books]]<br />
[[Category:Indian books]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian books]]<br />
[[Category:Dalit literature]]<br />
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