MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
.By Tariq Ali @ London Review of Books for Aug. 30 issue. Home page summary:
Contrary to the radical slogans of the late 1940s, India’s wasn’t a ‘fake independence’. Self-rule was achieved at a high price and it meant something, but it incorporated many colonial practices. The new masters benefited, but for the untouchables, tribals and others conditions remained the same or got worse. According to recent estimates by India’s National Crime Records Bureau, every 16 minutes a crime is committed by caste Hindus against an untouchable – or Dalit, as they prefer to be called. The figures are horrific: every month 52 Dalits are killed and six kidnapped; every week almost thirty Dalit women are raped by caste Hindus. This will be a serious underestimate
It is actually a book review of
Ants among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India by Sujatha Gidla, Daunt, 341 pp, £14.99
Comments
Pankaj Mishra's lengthy summary and review of same book for NY Review of Books last winter. No paywall. Recommend it especially if, like me, you're interested but pretty sure you're never going to get to reading the book.
by artappraiser on Sun, 09/02/2018 - 12:19am