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Land, guns, caste, woman : the memoir of a lapsed revolutionary
Ramaswamy, Gita
Land, guns, caste, woman : the memoir of a lapsed revolutionary / Gita Ramaswamy, - New Delhi Navayana 2022 - 427 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Enter Gita Ramaswamy, thirty years old. In her teens, Gita had escaped the brahminical clutches of her family that tried to cure her of Nasalism with shock treatment and sedation. She has endured the horrors of the Emergency. She is disillusioned. But not without hope. Gita starts living with the agricultural laborer's. They are in bondage, cheated out of land and all rights. They are in the mood to fight. Together, they take on the tyrannical landlords who brutalized the villages for generations. A revolution without a gun is in the making.
Gita writes with relentless self-reflexivity. This is as much a story of struggles and victories as it is a testimony of personal failings and regrets.
9788194865414
Social movements India History 20th century
Women civil rights workers India Biography
305.5 / RAM
Land, guns, caste, woman : the memoir of a lapsed revolutionary / Gita Ramaswamy, - New Delhi Navayana 2022 - 427 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Enter Gita Ramaswamy, thirty years old. In her teens, Gita had escaped the brahminical clutches of her family that tried to cure her of Nasalism with shock treatment and sedation. She has endured the horrors of the Emergency. She is disillusioned. But not without hope. Gita starts living with the agricultural laborer's. They are in bondage, cheated out of land and all rights. They are in the mood to fight. Together, they take on the tyrannical landlords who brutalized the villages for generations. A revolution without a gun is in the making.
Gita writes with relentless self-reflexivity. This is as much a story of struggles and victories as it is a testimony of personal failings and regrets.
9788194865414
Social movements India History 20th century
Women civil rights workers India Biography
305.5 / RAM