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The memoirs and lectures of A.N. Sattanathan, presented here in a fully annotated edition, with a critical introduction, constitute a key literary-historical document of the caste struggle. Sattanathan`s autobiographical fragment is a unique record of non-brahmin low-caste life in rural South India, where the presence of poverty and caste prejudice is the more powerful for being understated. As the experience”sparsely and beautifully rendered”of the low-caste but not stereotypically ˜untouchable` villager, it is, quite simply, revelatory, and will make an impact as such on the English-educated reader, to whom that experience has been so far unavailable. In a complementary narrative, Sattanathan`s lectures”on ˜The Rise and Spread of the Non-Brahmin Movement` as ˜the most outstanding event in South Indian History in the twentieth century`”offer a lucid summary of the cultural and historical conditions that find more personal and immediate expression in the memoirs.
ISBN :9788178241814
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Pages : 245
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