TY - BOOK AU - Limbāḷe, Śaraṇakumāra. AU - Bhoomkar, Santosh. TI - The Outcaste Akkarmashi SN - 9780195694062 AV - PK2418.L564 Z46 PY - 2013/// CY - New Delhi : PB - Oxford University Press, KW - Authors, Marathi KW - Biography KW - 20th century N2 - The Outcaste, a first-person narrative, is an emotionally violent autobiography of a half-caste growing up in the Mahar community, and the anguish he suffers from not belonging to it fully. A numbing account of the humiliation of a community at the hands of an unthinking privileged class, it is a reflection on the darker side of Indian society. The work brings to light [through bitter critique] the lack of compassion that the lower castes have endured for centuries in our caste-ridden society. First published in 1984, the Marathi original went through four editions, and was acknowledged as a true milestone that publicized the Dalit cause ER -