The Dalit volunteer not only snaps at the money-lender for his exploitative tact and warns him of legal action, but also assuages the Dalit family by saying, “Your time of emancipation is near, our messiah (indirectly referring to Dr. Rama realizes his mistake and vows never to consume liquor. Manjula informs the volunteer how Rama splurged his earnings on liquor, how the money-lender outraged her modesty. After his father’s death, the debt was passed on to him he has been repaying a hefty interest of INR 4 per month to the money-lender for several years. Rama’s wife, Manjula (a wage laborer), was responsible for the payment, though she could not pay that particular month’s interest owing to her illness. Rama narrates that his father had borrowed INR 50 from the money-lender for his wedding. On seeing the volunteer, Rama and his family beg for help. In the middle of the scene, a Dalit volunteer, who is creating awareness in the village and professing the ideology of “Ambedkarism”, enters Rama’s house. The first story published on 5 th August 1933, is about a poor Dalit family suffering under the burden of debt. The story opens with Rama Mahar (Mahar is one of the sub-castes under the Scheduled Castes), a Dalit laborer pleading before the money-lender for a waiver in the interest amount of the loan for the given month. A brief reproduction of the stories here shows the plight of the depressed classes. Dalit Durdasha, the title of the column, signifies the pain and suffering of the lives of the Dalit. Jadhav authored four short stories that were published in the Marathi language.

Jadhav was elected to the Bombay Legislature in 1937 from Khandesh as a member of the Independent Labour Party and also served as the chairman of the Peoples Education Society.

Dalit Durdasha was a column of short stories published in the Janata newspaper written by Daultrao Gulaji Jadhav, a close associate of Dr.

Ambedkar by Salim Yusufji