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The Place Outside Siddalingaiah Translated from Kannada by S.R. Ramakrishna 10 Siddalingaiah, one of the founders of the Dalit Sangharsha Samiti, tracks his journey from a dalit colony on the edges of Magadi town, through the years in dalit student hostels, to a career as a political activist, public intellectual and university professor in the city of Bangalore. We see the child who would rather roam the hills and wade in rivers than attend school; we watch as the teenager develops a passion for study, sits at the feet of mentors, tastes success (and danger) as an orator, devours literature from pavement vendors; we hear the adult’s fiercely rationalist political voice as well as his poetic voice, resonant with the dreams and hauntings of dalit folklore. The Place Outside is a vivid evocation of everyday life and labour, of conviviality and courage, of poverty and loss in the dalit colony. As critic D.R. Nagaraj says in his Afterword, Siddalingaiah offers us a bonsailike compression of life. ‘This is writing that makes rage pleasant. Here, anger becomes sarcasm. Ire is translated into a mischief that grasps the subtleties of life. What might have appeared strange if turned into a grand narrative becomes a story of human activity. Siddalingaiah transforms wrath into mischief.’ Siddalingaiah is a major Kannada poet. He has also written two plays, and a study of folk deities. He has served twice as member of the Karnataka Legislative Council. He is now chairman of the Kannada Development Authority. S.R. Ramakrishna is a journalist, music composer and translator. He lives in Bengaluru. ‘Malgudi Days with a critical difference... Megalahatti is populated by ghosts, deities, strict headmasters and wandering ascetics, set against rivers, hills and forests’ Education World ‘The book is full of lively anecdotes, memorable pen sk<strong>etc</strong>hes and inimitable caricatures. But the personal and the general are so organically bound to each other that the book is as much about Siddalingaiah the individual as it is about all major social, political and cultural movements of Karnataka in the last four decades’—The Hindu December 2012 ISBN 9788189059552 Paperback 5 x 7.8” Rs 295 All rights available
Ear to the Ground Writings on Class and Caste K. Balagopal Balagopal’s writings, from the early 1980s till he died in 2009, offer us a rare insight into the making of modern India. Civil rights work provided Balagopal the cause and context to engage with history, the public sphere and political change. He wrote through nearly three tumultuous decades: on encounter deaths; struggles of agricultural labourers; the shifting dynamics of class and caste in the 1980s and thereafter in Andhra Pradesh; the venality and tyranny of the Indian state; on the importance of re-figuring the caste order as one that denied the right of civil existence to vast numbers of its constituents; the centrality one ought to grant patriarchy in considerations of social injustice; and on the destructive logic of development that emerged in the India of the 1990s, dishonouring its citizens’ right to life, liberty and livelihood. This volume comprises essays—largely drawn from the Economic & Political Weekly—that deal with representations and practices of class power as they exist in tandem with state authority and caste identities. Inspired by naxalism in the late 1970s, intellectually indebted to D.D. Kosambi’s writings on Indian history and society, and politically and ethically attentive to the politics of feminist and dalit assertion in the 1990s, Balagopal refused dogma and shrill polemics just as he refused theory that did not heed the mess of history and practice. ‘As a human rights worker active since 1981, and slightly older than Balagopal, I remember him as a magical figure. The writings in this volume help interpret the often chaotic developments in Andhra Pradesh, and provide a model tool for understanding other regional realities of India’—Binayak Sen ‘For students and activists of three generations, Balagopal’s voice was an ethical and political compass’ Biblio: A Review of Books A mathematician by training, Kandala Balagopal (1952–2009) was associated with the Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee for two decades. In 1998, he became one of the founder-members of Human Rights Forum in which he was active till his death. ‘Every article shines with the originality of his insight and the fury of his concern’ —Wall Street Journal–Mint ISBN 9788189059408 488 pages Paperback 6 x 9.25” Rs 550 All rights available
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