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100			_aRamaswamy, Gita
245		0	_aLand, guns, caste, woman _b: the memoir of a lapsed revolutionary _c/ Gita Ramaswamy,
260			_bNavayana _c2022 _aNew Delhi
300			_a427 pages _b: illustrations, maps _c; 23 cm
520			_aEnter 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.
650			_aSocial movements India History 20th century
650			_aWomen civil rights workers India Biography
942			_cENGLISH
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