Ants Among Elephants
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| Author | Sujatha Gidla |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Publication date | 2017 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 320 |
| ISBN | 978-0-86547-811-4 |
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India is a book by Sujatha Gidla on how India's untouchables (Dalits) struggle to overcome poverty and social ostracism due to the rigid caste system. The book deals with the humiliation and caste-based discrimination which Dalits face in India.[1][2][3][4][5] Writing in The New York Review of Books, Pankaj Mishra says that the book "significantly enriches the new Dalit literature in English" and that the book is a "devastating critique" of the India's independence leaders and the enchantment that India's upper-caste communist leaders had for Stalin and Mao.[6]
References
- ^ "Book on discrimination against Dalits written by an "untouchable born in Andhra Pradesh", creates buzz in US". Indian Express. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
{{cite web}}:|archive-date=requires|archive-url=(help) - ^ "Memories of an 'untouchable' New York subway staffer". Hindustan Times. 25 July 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
- ^ "Book on discrimination against Dalits creates buzz in the US". The Economic Times. 28 July 2017. Archived from the original on 31 July 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
- ^ "The defiance of an 'untouchable' New York subway worker". BBC News. 25 July 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
- ^ Kakutani, Michiko (17 July 2017). "'Ants Among Elephants,' a Memoir About the Persistence of Caste". New York Times. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
- ^ Mishra, Pankaj (21 December 2017). "God's Oppressed Children". The New York Review of Books.