Viramma - Life of an Untouchable (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Verso Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 1998
First published:	December 1997
Authors:	Viramma
Translators:	Will Hobson
Dimensions:	234 x 157 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	332
ISBN-13:	978-1-85984-148-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Social classes > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	1-85984-148-1
Barcode:	9781859841488

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