The Prisons We Broke (2008) is an English translation of Jina Aamcha(1985), a Marathi text by Baby Kamble. The translator is Prof. Maya Pandit, a feminist and a social activist herself. Baby Kamble's Jina Aamcha(1985) is the first work of Dalit women's writing. The book, an autobiography, written in Marathi language, deals with the lives of the Dalits in Veergaon, Kamble's village. It brings out oppression, exploitation of the Dalits by the upper class, women's status in a patriarchal society, the ignorant and superstitious lives of Dalits and the agonizing experience of being Dalit and also being a Dalit woman. The book also interrogates the various institutions like society, marriage, family, religion and God. The work crosses the boundaries of the 'personal' and the 'personal' becomes 'political' as well as 'a social comment' and also a story of a Dalit woman's search for identity in the caste based, patriarchal Hindu Indian society.Therefore, this paper aims at bringing out how Maya Pandit 'creates', 'disseminates' meaning and how her translation is an act of power. An attempt will also be made to show how this translation is an expression of a particular ideology of the translator and how Pandit attempts to unravel the deeper multiple meanings of the original text for the sake of a large number of readers