'' KANSHIRAM'' LEADER OF THE DALITS, BY BADRI NARAYAN

15th August 1947, At the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.. These are golden words of Jawahar Lal Nehru. India is in the journey of their own destiny but there are many challenges in his path. And one of them was marginalise section of society the Dalit's, whose condition at that time raised many question. Is they got freedom in real sense? Is atrocities against them is stopped ? There are lots of questions at that time which need to be answered.

Many of them get their answers in form of constitution, which is adopted by India after independence in which their is provisions of equality for all. But equality in real sense is far away from reality.

From their started the journey of struggle of dalit leaders. After Independence dalit leaders had tried much to fight for equality and justice, in them one of the largest leader is Kanshiram.

About the Book -   

It is about a real time hero of dalit politics, Kanshiram(15 March 1934- 9 October 2006) who is born in Roopnagar district of Punjab. He constantly work for liberation of dalit people. Talking about his political career, he feels the need of separate political party for dalit community. He firstly started to join the people of dalit who were self employed and also in government jobs. So he formed the BAMSEF(All India Backward and Minority communities Employees Federation), then DS-4 (Dalit Shoshit Samaj Sangharsh Society), and in 1984 largest dalit political party Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) which became single largest political party in Uttar Pradesh state many times and also has created it's space in centre politics. With his effort Dalit's political awakening taken a new birth and a new era of political representation of dalit in Indian political system is observed.A much can be known about him from this book , his struggle, journey, difficulties in his life which I am not mention here because of word limit. 

He is the real hero of dalit awakening and Badri Narayan has written beautiful about him. A must read account of dalit politics.