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Viramma tells her fascinating life story with the unsentimentality, humor and dramatic sense of a born 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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Viramma, Will Hobson, John L. Varriano, Viramma, Josiane Racine, Jean-Luc Racine
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- 1997
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- Title
- Viramma
- Subtitle
- Life of an Untouchable
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Verso
- Released
- 1997
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN10
- 1859841481
- ISBN13
- 9781859841488
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, True Stories, Business, Business & Management, Biographies, Self-Help, Adventure, Psychological Topics, Philosophical Topics, Love, Family, Women, Spirituality, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Friendship, Christian Themes, Economics, Relationships, Biographies, School, Education & School System, Sociology, Death, Society, Culture and Society, Feminism, Anthropology, Marriage, India, Culture, Money, Church, Gender, Weddings, Infidelity, Globalization, Community, Aging, Strategy, Beaches, Body, Sadness, Dutch, Social Conditions, Social Classes, Behavioral Economics
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- 3.45 out of 5
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- Viramma tells her fascinating life story with the unsentimentality, humor and dramatic sense of a born 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.