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Memoirs of a Dalit Communist
R.B. More (1903–1972) was a leader in Babasaheb Ambedkar’s movement, a trade unionist and a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
More’s life, narrated in his words and those of his son Satyendra, illuminates the conflict between the promise of Marxist emancipation and the hard reality of the hierarchies of caste.
His radicalism challenged both the limits of the politics of caste and the politics of the Left; his was a politics that frontally challenged the rigidities of the caste system and of the class structure.
This memoir, written in Marathi, is here published for the first time in English. This is a rare work that brings together family history, political thought, and the social experience of urban workers whose lives are intertwined with the city they built, Bombay.
More’s life, narrated in his words and those of his son Satyendra, illuminates the conflict between the promise of Marxist emancipation and the hard reality of the hierarchies of caste.
His radicalism challenged both the limits of the politics of caste and the politics of the Left; his was a politics that frontally challenged the rigidities of the caste system and of the class structure.
This memoir, written in Marathi, is here published for the first time in English. This is a rare work that brings together family history, political thought, and the social experience of urban workers whose lives are intertwined with the city they built, Bombay.
293 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2019
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February 3, 2025
4.5 stars. been really into memoirs lately. it's so enriching because you know millions make a movement but then you learn how each and every person are so valuable to this work. like R.B. More was just one person but his contributions were profound-- he was literally THE bridge between Ambedkar and the independent movement of the Dalits and the Communist Party. he chose to devote himself to the Communist Party, to deepen their work amongst the Dalits. i love how it starts with his unfinished autobiography and then finishes with his son's much longer biography. the respect R.B. More is held with is palpable.
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