Viramma: Life of an Untouchable

Viramma: Life of an Untouchable
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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 â€˜very gently, like stroking a roseâ€™; adult life as an agricultural worker â€˜condemned to bake in the sunâ€™; tales of gods and malign forces, like Irsi Katteri â€˜the foetus-eaterâ€™, 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.
Country USA
Brand Verso
Manufacturer Verso
Binding Paperback
Color Brown
ReleaseDate 1998-02-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9788187358190

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