Shankar Rao Kharat
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Shankarrao Kharat (died 2001[1]) was a prominent Marathi writer of short stories. He wrote about the life experience of Dalits[2][3].
He was born in Atpadi, the palace city of the former princely state of Aundh, now Atpadi taluka in Sangali district. A lawyer and official, he was a convert to Buddhism[4]. He became Vice-Chancellor of Marathwada University[5].
[edit] Books
- Autobiography: Taral Antaral (तराळ अंतराळ) (1981)
[edit] Reference
- Nalini Natarajan, Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India (1996), p. 368
[edit] Notes
- ^ The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Nation
- ^ Debjani Ganguly, Caste, Colonialism and Counter-modernity (2005), p. 179.
- ^ 558 Anupama Rao, Representing Dalit selfhood
- ^ Eleanor Zelliot, Maxine Berntsen, The Experience of Hinduism: Essays on Religion in Maharashtra (1988), p. 347.
- ^ Dalit Autobiographical Narratives
