B.A. FIRST YEAR THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY SECTION CASTE CLASS CHAPTER 2 JOOTHAN BY OMPRAKSAH VALMIKI NOTES

OMPRAKASH VALMIKI

Omprakash Valmiki was born on 30 June 1950 in a Valmiki Dalit family in Muzaffar nagar district of Uttar Pradesh. Omprakash Valmiki described atrocities and insults on Dalits . Omprakash Valmiki made his significant contribution in getting the rights of Dalits and promoting the Dalit movement. He explained how Dalits can get their respect in the society.

JOOTHAN

Joothan is the autobiography of omprakash valmiki. Under which he describes  the true incident of omprakash valmiki's life. The atrocities and social mental torture inflicted on him. Through this story om prakash valmiki has told about the atrocities and discrimination with dalits and how the dalits lived their lives. Omprakash valmiki's father wanted him to study in a government school, but at that time, dalits were not free to enroll in the school, but gandhi ji allowed the bahujan  society to study in a government school.after much request, valmiki gets admission in the school but he is exploited and mentally tortured and humiliated by everyone in the school. 

In school, they are made to sit on the floor, instead of education,they are given the task of cleaning. Schools do not have the freedom to touch  anything,even that water cannot drink on its own. Valmiki becomes very mentally disturbed. Once valmiki is mounted on a tree by a headmaster named kali ram and he is told to break the twigs from the tree to make a broom and with that broom, the whole school is cleaned by him. Kali ram gets omprakash valmiki cleaning the school every day. Valmiki  hides in a corner one day but finds kali ram and then gets him cleaned.  

Valmiki gets very mentally disturbed and feels insulted by all this. One day valmiki is clearing the school ground, only then his father is passing by and seeing him in this condition he goes to the head master of the  school let’s talk but the headmaster does not listen to them, after that  he goes to the head of the village (pradhan) and  explains his problem, the head of the village does not notice his problem and give him an assurance.