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100	1		_aGidla, Sujatha _d(1963-)
245	1	0	_aAnts among elephants : _ban untouchable family and the making of modern India _c/ Sujatha Gidla.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aNew York _b: Farrar, Straus and Giroux _c, c2017
300			_a306 pages _c; 24 cm
520	2		_aThe stunning true story of an untouchable family who become teachers, and one, a poet and revolutionary. Like one in six people in India, Sujatha Gidla was born an untouchable. While most untouchables are illiterate, her family was educated by Canadian missionaries in the 1930s, making it possible for Gidla to attend elite schools and move to America at the age of twenty-six. It was only then that she saw how extraordinary--and yet how typical--her family history truly was. Her mother, Manjula, and uncles Satyam and Carey were born in the last days of British colonial rule. They grew up in a world marked by poverty and injustice, but also full of possibility. In the slums where they lived, everyone had a political side, and rallies, agitations, and arrests were commonplace. The Independence movement promised freedom. Yet for untouchables and other poor and working people, little changed. Satyam, the eldest, switched allegiance to the Communist Party. Gidla recounts his incredible life--how he became a famous poet, student, labor organizer, and founder of a left-wing guerrilla movement. And Gidla charts her mother's battles with caste and women's oppression. Page by page, Gidla takes us into a complicated, close-knit family as they desperately strive for a decent life and a more just society. A moving portrait of love, hardship, and struggle, Ants Among Elephants is also that rare thing: a personal history of modern India told from the bottom up--Provided by publisher.
546			_aEnglish
600	1	0	_aGidla, Sujatha _d(1963-)
650		0	_aDalits _z-India
650		0	_aFamilies _z-India _x-Biography
650		0	_aTeachers _x-Biography
650		0	_aPoets _v--Biography
650		0	_aRevolutionaries _x-Biography
650		0	_aCaste _z-India _x-History
650		7	_aDiscrimination and race relations
651		0	_aIndia _x-Social conditions
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