This book recounts the lives of Dalit leaders, many of them half-forgotten like Jogendranath Mandal
An excerpt from ‘Makers of Modern Dalit History’, by Sudarshan Ramabadran and Guru Prakash Paswan. Jogendranath Mandal.
A lesser-known and underrated personality who fought for and asserted the rights of Dalits in India till his very last breath is Jogendranath Mandal. Time and again, his loyalty to India has been questioned because of his life story – that in his political career, he chose to work in cohesion with the Muslim League and Mohammad Ali Jinnah, and as a result pledged allegiance to Pakistan, only to be later disillusioned about his choice. He remains a forgotten leader, despite being multidimensional in his political skills, all because he chose to shift to Pakistan as law minister.