Product Description
1943: As the British Empire draws to a close, the state of Bengal is just emerging from the grip of famine. Exploited mercilessly by feudal landlords, landless peasants rise in protest and launch a movement to retain two-thirds of the grain they harvest - Tebhaga.
About the Author
Kavita Panjabi is Professor of Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She has long been active in the women's and civil liberties movements and is an independent scholar who has worked on a range of subjects.
Author(s): Kavita Panjabi
About the Book
About the Author
Title Page
Copyright
Note to the Reader
Foreword: Histories of Our Own :: V. Geetha
Thanksgiving
Introduction
'Sholte Pakano'-The Rolling of the Wick: The Mahila Atmaraksha Samiti and the Women's Movement in Tebhaga
The 'Retroactive Force of Interiority': The Conscience of Oral History
'Ektu Phyan De Ma'-Mother Give Me Some Rice Water: The 'Man-Made' Famine and Women's Responses to Hunger
'Meyera Andolane Antarikata Aanlo'-Women Brought an Inwardness to the Movement: Redefining Political Agency, Forging Affective Comradeships
'Atiter Jed'-The Persistence of the Past: The Santals and the Times of Revolution
'Premer Jomir Khoje'-In Search of the Terrain of Love: Alienation in a Politics of Violence
'Bhije Matir Gandhe Naach Kori Anande'-In the Fragrance of the Wet Earth We Dance in Joy: From the Aesthetics of Liberation to the Wreckage of History
Interviews Conducted
Appendix: Literary Representations of Tebhaga
Bibliography
