Abstract

My anthropological encounters with urban Indian Untouch able women2 during the eighties were slow and difficult. I distinctly remember how during a discussion an Untouchable woman's simple declarative sentence, the one which helps me start this essay, had prompted me to approach them for study in the summer of 1986. My memories and writing relate with and respond to their ways of remembering, forgiving, and forgetting within their world. We both are at the center of this essay, reflecting on each other and on our respective cultural locations and self-limitations. Our biases as well as empathies are a part of the same passage in which we learned to communicate better.

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