{"product_id":"viramma-life-of-an-untouchable-paperback","title":"Viramma: Life of an Untouchable - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJean-Luc Racine\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJosiane Racine\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJohn L. Varriano\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eViramma tells her fascinating life story with the unsentimentality, humor and dramatic sense of a born storyteller: her carefree childhood; her marriage before puberty; giving birth to twelve children 'very gently, like stroking a rose'; adult life as an agricultural worker 'condemned to bake in the sun'; tales of gods and malign forces, like Irsi Katteri 'the foetus-eater', who cast their shadow over her daily life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold over ten years to Josiane and Jean-Luc Racine, this is an intensely personal and moving self-portrait, informed by a sense of profound social change in contemporary India. To emancipationists Viramma is a Dalit, one of the oppressed; to Gandhians she is a Harijan, a daughter of God; in her village she is still treated as an Untouchable, a Pariah. In this remarkable book she reveals the world of an extraordinary woman living at the very margins of Indian society.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.73 x 9.24 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 17, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751157956896,"sku":"9781859841488","price":34.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/552701588010f866602fe657e06d2385.webp?v=1779965980","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/viramma-life-of-an-untouchable-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}