<p>The stories and the autobiographical fragments in this collection are engaged and critical accounts of life in namboodri households. Set in the 30s-50s, these texts bring alive the world in which Lalithambika Antherjanam (1909-1985) was born. They record in vivid detail the physical incarceration, the mental agony and the terrorizing disciplinary holds of rituals of purity with an intimacy that can only come from one who writes from experience.</p>

Cast Me Out If You Will: Stories and Memoir

Politics & Social Sciences

Women's Studies

Stree

Nabankur means a new seedling, personified by Chhobi, who is growing up in the 1930s and early 1940s in Bengal where anti-colonial struggles against British rule are in full swing. This novel features Chhobi, a misfit girl who questions injustice, and fights to share the privileges offered to her brother and male cousins.

Nabanjur (Gender Culture Politics)

Literature & Fiction

Sanyal, Sulekha

Chattopadhyay, Gouranga P.

Contemporary

Examining the crucial linkages between caste and gender, undertaken, perhaps, for the first time, Uma Chakravarti unmasks the mystique of consensus in the workings of the caste system to reveal the underlying violence and coercion that perpetuate a severely hierarchical and unequal society. The subordination of women and the control of female sexuality are crucial to the maintenance of the caste system, creating what feminist scholars have termed brahmanical patriarchy. She discusses the range of patriarchal practice within the larger framework of sexuality, labour and access to material resources, and also focuses on the centrality of endogamous marriages that maintain the system. Erudite yet accessible, this book enables the reader to understand the interface of gender and caste and to participate in its critical analysis.

Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens

Uma Chakravarti

Social Sciences

Captures the chilling reality of a childhood spent playing with carcasses in a bonemeal factory, snatching coins from corpses in the cremation grounds, of being refused water at the village well and the various stages of a remarkable life this autobiography reveals what modern india is like as it plunges along its path of economic growth

Whole Truth & Nothing But the Truth: A Dalit's Life

B Kesharshivam

Anthropology

Dalit Lekhika : Women's Writings from Bengal

How Are You Veg? Dalit Stories from Telugu

Joopaka Subhadra

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