Khairlanji :a strange and bitter crop
Material type: TextSeries: HolocastePublication details: New Delhi Navayana 2008Description: 214 pISBN: 9788189059156Subject(s): Dalits | Dalits | Atrocities India--Khairlāñji Dalits--Civil rights Dalits--Crimes againstDDC classification: 362.8808694095479 Summary: On 29 September 2006, in Khairlanji, Maharashtra, Surekha Bhotmange and her daughter Priyanka Bhotmange were stripped, paraded naked, raped repeatedly and killed. Surekha's sons Roshan and Sudhir were lynched. The entire village was involved. The four bodies were dumped into a canal. The Bhotmanges were Dalit. Anand Teltumbde reconstructs one of post-independence India's worst caste atrocities and tells us how and why Khairlanjis are always around us. Writer Arundhati Roy says he "exposes the gangrenous heart of our society."Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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BK | Sanskrit | 362.8808694095479 ANA/K (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 54131 |
On 29 September 2006, in Khairlanji, Maharashtra, Surekha Bhotmange and her daughter Priyanka Bhotmange were stripped, paraded naked, raped repeatedly and killed. Surekha's sons Roshan and Sudhir were lynched. The entire village was involved. The four bodies were dumped into a canal. The Bhotmanges were Dalit.
Anand Teltumbde reconstructs one of post-independence India's worst caste atrocities and tells us how and why Khairlanjis are always around us. Writer Arundhati Roy says he "exposes the gangrenous heart of our society."
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