Wamandada kardak biography of alberta

In the series  Dalit shahirs of Maharashtra , poet and translator Yogesh Maitreya writes about the poet-musicians of the anti-caste movement, who took Dr BR Ambedkar’s idea of the annihilation of caste to the people.

The series describes how Ambedkarite shahiri and Ambedkari jalsa also reestablished Dalit culture and music as legitimate art forms, which were until then suppressed under Brahminical hegemony.

Bhimrao Kardak

Born in in the small village Kasabe Kunabe in Nashik, Bhimrao Kardak would go on to become one of the first shahirs. He identified himself as a practitioner of Ambedkari jalsa, a radically changed form of the erstwhile tamasha.

Of Kardak’s legacy, Maitreya writes that the jalsa was the musically rendered cultural assertion of Ambedkar’s movement, which had by then begun to take root in the political and social domain.

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