A Mahar woman wrote about caste griefs in 1855

Evidence

Muktabai (Salve). 1855/1991. “Mang Maharachya Dukhavisayi.” Tr. Maya Pandit, “About the Griefs of the Mangs and Mahars.” In Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the Present. Ed. Susie Tharu and K. Lalita, 214–16. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 685

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how caste annihilation was thought of and implemented — a rare early Dalit women’s voice predating Ambedkar.