Learn About Dalit Music History with a Special Bookmobile!
Recommended for Preparatory Grades
A cool new bookmobile is travelling to different universities in India for seven months. The bookmobile’s screen plays songs by unknown singers from rural Maharashtra.
Importantly, these songs are all about standing up against caste-based exploitation and untouchability.
Key facts!
- A special bookmobile is travelling to different universities in India for seven months.
- The Bookmobile is called the Ambedkar digital bookmobile
- It has a special trunk-like device with a screen that plays songs.
- The songs are a compilation of Maharashtra’s history of social reform.
- This means it has songs and poetry that are 400 to 500 years old!
- Further, these songs are all about standing up against caste-based exploitation and untouchability.
- The Bookmobile has travelled to several universities in Maharashtra, Delhi, and Bangalore.
- It’s now at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai.
- Two artists created the project to ensure more people knew about the important songs in Dalit history.
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