Review of Baby Kamble’s The Prisons We Broke

The Prisons We Broke: The Autobiography of a Community
Baby Kamble
Published by Orient Longman

The Prisons We Broke is the first autobiography of a Dalit woman in Marathi. Jina Amucha, the original in Marathi, was serialised in 1982 and published as a book in 1986.

What Ambedkar’s teachings meant to this oppressed group of people shunned by society is what comes through in this work, as Baby records her own involvement with the Dalit movement. An interesting read, The Prisons We Broke humanises the Dalit movement in India.

Priya M Menon
THE NEW SUNDAY EXPRESS

Janhavi Acharekar
THE HINDU, 2 March 2008