{"product_id":"viramma-life-of-an-untouchable-9781859841488","title":"Viramma: Life of an Untouchable","description":"Viramma 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. \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/17\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781859841488\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.24h x 6.14w x 0.73d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/1997 pg. 102\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jean-Luc Racine, Josiane Racine, John L. Varriano","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41968277520565,"sku":"9781859841488","price":25.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_804fb90a-b9ec-471e-b665-d6b5fe8d9c3a.jpg?v=1647956472","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/viramma-life-of-an-untouchable-9781859841488","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}