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Aaydan

Aaydan (lit. 'bamboo basketry' or 'things made of bamboo') is an autobiographical novel by Indian dalit writer and feminist Urmila Pawar. It was originally published in 2003 in Marathi language. The English language translation titled The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman's Memoirs by Maya Pandit was published in 2009 with a foreword by Wandana Sonalkar. The book is a significant work in Dalit literature and chronicles Pawar's life as a Dalit woman, detailing her experiences with caste discrimination, poverty, and gender-based oppression within both mainstream society and the Dalit community itself. In her foreword to the English translation, Wandana Sonalkar writes that the title of the book The Weave is a metaphor of the writing technique employed by Pawar, "the lives of different members of her family, her husband's family, her neighbours and classmates, are woven together in a narrative that gradually reveals different aspects of the everyday life of Dalits, the manifold ways in which caste asserts itself and grinds them down"

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Aaydan (lit. 'bamboo basketry' or 'things made of bamboo') is an autobiographical novel by Indian dalit writer and feminist Urmila Pawar. It was originally published in 2003 in Marathi language. The English language translation titled The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman's Memoirs by Maya Pandit was published in 2009 with a foreword by Wandana Sonalkar. The book is a significant work in Dalit literature and chronicles Pawar's life as a Dalit woman, detailing her experiences with caste discrimination, poverty, and gender-based oppression within both mainstream society and the Dalit community itself. In her foreword to the English translation, Wandana Sonalkar writes that the title of the book The Weave is a metaphor of the writing technique employed by Pawar, "the lives of different members of her family, her husband's family, her neighbours and classmates, are woven together in a narrative that gradually reveals different aspects of the everyday life of Dalits, the manifold ways in which caste asserts itself and grinds them down"

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  1. publication date: 2003 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
  2. publication date: 2009 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the publication date is "2003". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. The record states that the publication date is "2009". What evidence would count against this claim?
  4. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  5. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375306295

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