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==Reactions==
Rao considers that ''Baluta'', as a representative of Dalit literature, wasn't just a faithful narration of the Dalit experience but also an "ethical challenge" to the "caste Hindu" whom it "implicated".<ref name="Rao2009">{{cite book|author=Anupama Rao|title=The caste question: Dalits and the politics of modern India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tDRiJ3HZVPQC&pg=PA197|accessdate=9 March 2012|date=6 July 2009|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-25761-0|pages=197–}}</ref> [[Sharmila Rege]] quotes [[Urmila Pawar]], who mentions the criticism of Dalit scholars that ''Baluta'' was shameful; Urmila rejects this criticism as based on lack of understanding.<ref name="Rege2006">{{cite book|first=Sharmila |last=Rege |authorlink=Sharmila Rege|title=Writing caste, writing gender: reading Dalit women's testimonios|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Msaki69NQHsC&pg=PA292|accessdate=9 March 2012|date=2 July 2006|publisher=Zubaan|isbn=978-81-89013-01-1|pages=292}}</ref> According to ''The Encyclopaedia...'', it created the first anti-hero in [[Marathi literature]].<ref name="Datta2006"/> ''Link'' mentions that ''Baluta'' "created a sensation in the Marathi world for its frank and unique description of a life that the author lived in the ghettos of prostitutes, criminals, pimps and uprooted Dalit people, within and around the red light areas of the city of [[Mumbai|Bombay]]."<ref name="Link: Indian newsmagazine">{{cite book|title=Link: Indian newsmagazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=89YxAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=9 March 2012|year=1981|page=37}}</ref>
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