Dr Narendra Jadhav Analysis

He did not find his ‘self’ at ease in his Yeskar duty at Ozar, where his relatives were enslaved in the caste system. He represented ‘self’ of the community which was suffocating under the orders of the Fauzdar. Consequently, he abandoned the village along with his wife on the very night for Mumbai. Sonu, his wife never felt herself away from her husband. On their way to Mumbai, they joined Kalaram temple satyagraha at Nashik when he saw the community members there. He got the collective sense in their company.

‘On the day of the agitation, there were people everywhere, greeting each other with ‘Jai Bhim’. Around 20,000 people had assembled there. Truly, with such a big force, who would dare treat us as subhuman, I wondered.’ (Jadhav 128) He resumed Ambedkar movement as well as a job in Railway Department in Mumbai. While working on one of the projects between

Narendra Jadhav’s ‘self’ represented Dalits in the academic arena. Not only his parents but Dr. Narendra Jadhav’s ‘self’ develops in the community. He lived in Wadala in his childhood. The jungle raj, where a moral code of conduct was important, shaped the ‘self’ of the generations of the community. He confessed that the particular atmosphere at Wadala had a lion share to shape his personality. He is one of the six children living in a 10 by 10 feet room along with his parents and grandma. The family raised chickens and goats. He studied along with other children under the electric lamp in the chawl. The children of these uneducated parents helped each other for their difficulties in their study. All the parents in the chawl were respected in the same way. Any parent could discipline anybody else’s child, and nobody would tell them to mind their own business. The children are their collective responsibility. ‘Chhotu’ as Narendra Jadhav was called in his childhood had the memories of the fair at Jejuri. His ‘self’ emerges through the memories like kanduri and the ritual called ‘return of the