The Backward Class.
The Backward Class.
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Title from title frames. Film In Process Record.
Originally produced by Collective Eye Films in 2014.
Their school is a social experiment, whose sources of funding are struggling through the economic crisis. Their families and socio-economic contemporaries remain entrenched in the generations of destitution long associated with their Dalit ('untouchable') caste. They are the twelfth graders of Shanti Bhavan School, living proof of the forgotten potential of the rural poor. A hopeful coming-of-age story - the first class of Dalit ("untouchable") caste students in India's history, undertake the national ISC high school graduation exams as a means to a brighter future for themselves, and an opportunity to break their families out of the destitution they've been entrenched in for generations.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
In English,Tamil
12064728 Kanopy
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Title from title frames. Film In Process Record.
Originally produced by Collective Eye Films in 2014.
Their school is a social experiment, whose sources of funding are struggling through the economic crisis. Their families and socio-economic contemporaries remain entrenched in the generations of destitution long associated with their Dalit ('untouchable') caste. They are the twelfth graders of Shanti Bhavan School, living proof of the forgotten potential of the rural poor. A hopeful coming-of-age story - the first class of Dalit ("untouchable") caste students in India's history, undertake the national ISC high school graduation exams as a means to a brighter future for themselves, and an opportunity to break their families out of the destitution they've been entrenched in for generations.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
In English,Tamil
12064728 Kanopy
Coming of age.
Education.
Asians.
Human rights.
Documentary films.
Documentary films.