Language:
Marathi
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Hindi
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (1 streaming video file, 168 minutes)
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sound, color
Series Statement:
The Anand Patwardhan Collection
DDC:
305.51220954
Keywords:
Ambedkar, B. R
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Ambedkar, B. R - 1891-1956
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Caste
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Dalits
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Group identity
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Caste Political aspects
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Group identity Political aspects
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Social conflict
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Castes - Inde
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Identité collective - Inde
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Castes - Aspect politique - Inde
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Identité collective - Aspect politique - Inde
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Caste
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Caste - Political aspects
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Dalits
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Group identity
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Group identity - Political aspects
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Social conflict
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Documentary films
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Feature films
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Nonfiction films
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Documentary films
;
Nonfiction films
;
Feature films
;
Documentaires
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Films autres que de fiction
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India
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Film
Abstract:
For thousands of years India's Dalits were abhorred as "untouchables," denied education and treated as bonded labour. By 1923 Bhimrao Ambedkar broke the taboo, won doctorates abroad and fought for the emancipation of his people. He drafted India's Constitution, led his followers to discard Hinduism for Buddhism. His legend still spreads through poetry and song. In 1997 a statue of Dr. Ambedkar in a Dalit colony in Mumbai was desecrated with footwear. As angry residents gathered, police opened fire killing 10. Vilas Ghogre, a leftist poet, hung himself in protest. Jai Bhim Comrade shot over 14 years, follows the poetry and music of people like Vilas and marks a subaltern tradition of reason that, from the days of the Buddha, has fought superstition and religious bigotry
Note:
Title from title frames
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Originally produced in 2012
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Dokumentarfilm. Indien. 2012
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In Marathi and Hindi with English subtitles
