Who among the following recounts in her autobiography about a Dalit w…

NCERT (2025-26): “Sanskritisation … Kumud Pawade in her autobiography recounts how a Dalit woman became a Sanskrit teacher. As a student she is drawn towards the study of Sanskrit, perhaps because it is the means through which she can break into a field that was not possible for her to enter on grounds of gender and caste. Perhaps she was drawn towards it because it would enable her to read in the original what the texts have to say about women and the Dalits. As she proceeds with her studies, she meets with varied reactions ranging from surprise to hostility, from guarded acceptance to brutal rejection. As she says: The result is that although I try to forget my caste, it is impossible to forget. And then I remember an expression I heard somewhere: ‘What comes by birth, but can’t be cast off by dying - that is caste.…”