Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India

Name: Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
ISBN: 9781911547228

Sujatha Gidla uses family history to narrate caste violence, communist politics, educational aspiration, and gendered sacrifice in modern India.

Dalit Feminism Caste and Gender Historical Context Social Movements Women's Literature

📝 Book Review & Summary

Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India belongs in FemRes because it makes caste visible as a gendered system rather than a background social category. Sujatha Gidla uses family history to narrate caste violence, communist politics, educational aspiration, and gendered sacrifice in modern India.

It helps readers see anti-caste writing not only as “social issue” literature, but as national, class, revolutionary, and intimate history.

Publication Info

Author: Sujatha Gidla

Published: July 18, 2017

ISBN: 9781911547228

Language: English

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