Name: Viramma
SKU: 3469092
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Author: Jean-Luc Racine; Josiane Racine; John L. Varriano

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Author

Jean-Luc Racine; Josiane Racine; John L. Varriano

Year

1997

Language

English

Pages

320

Format

Paperback

ISBN

1859841481

ISBN13

9781859841488

Synopsis "Viramma "

Viramma tells her fascinating life story with the unsentimentality, humor and dramatic sense of a born storyteller: her carefree childhood; her marriage before puberty; giving birth to twelve children ‘very gently, like stroking a rose’; adult life as an agricultural worker ‘condemned to bake in the sun’; tales of gods and malign forces, like Irsi Katteri ‘the foetus-eater’, who cast their shadow over her daily life.Told over ten years to Josiane and Jean-Luc Racine, this is an intensely personal and moving self-portrait, informed by a sense of profound social change in contemporary India. To emancipationists Viramma is a Dalit, one of the oppressed; to Gandhians she is a Harijan, a daughter of God; in her village she is still treated as an Untouchable, a Pariah. In this remarkable book she reveals the world of an extraordinary woman living at the very margins of Indian society.

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