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    THE BOOKSHELF

    Jun 20, 2022 2 minutes

    LAND, GUNS, CASTE, WOMAN THE MEMOIR OF A LAPSED REVOLUTIONARY

    Gita Ramaswamy

    Gita Ramaswamy’s memoir recalls, among many things, student life at Osmania University in the 1970s, her fight, alongside the Dalits of Ibrahimpatnam, against landlessness and bonded labour, and their struggle to reclaim fourteen thousand acres of

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