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  title info:
    title: Ants among elephants
    sub title: an untouchable family and the making of modern India
  name:
    name part: Gidla, Sujatha
    name part: 1963-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 306 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The 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.
  table of contents: Sujatha Gidla -- Sujatha Gidla.
  note: Sujatha Gidla.
  note: Illustrations on endpapers.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ii---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Gidla, Sujatha
      name part: 1963-
    topic: Childhood and youth
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Gidla, Sujatha
      name part: 1963-
    topic: Family
  subject:
    topic: Dalits
    geographic: India
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Families
    geographic: India
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Teachers
    geographic: India
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Poets
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Revolutionaries
    geographic: India
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Caste
    geographic: India
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: India
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 1947-
  subject:
    geographic: Kakinada (India)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
    topic: Literary
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    geographic: Asia
    topic: India & South Asia
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Discrimination & Race Relations
  classification: DS422.C3 G54 2017
  classification: 305.5/688092254
  identifier: 9780865478114
  identifier: 0865478112
  identifier: 9780374711382
  identifier: 2016052857
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170110
    record change date: 20171016141155.0
    record identifier: in00003886199