Ants among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India Paperback – 10 December 2018

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By Sujatha Gidla (Author)

Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins India; 1st edition (10 December 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 316 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9353025038
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 282 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 21.5 x 2.4 x 14.5 cm
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ India
Generic Name ‏ : ‎ Book

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Winner of the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize, 2018Sujatha Gidla was born an untouchable. Her family, belonging to the Mala caste, was educated in Warangal and Madras by Canadian missionaries in the 1930s, making it possible for Gidla to attend elite schools and move to America at the age of twenty-six. It was only then that she saw how extraordinary – and yet how typical – her family history truly was. Determined to uncover that history, and understand the social and political forces that made it possible, she traveled back to India to record the testimonies of her mother, her uncles, and their friends. In Ants Among Elephants, she tells their story. A moving portrait of love, hardship, and struggle, Ants Among Elephants is also that rare thing: a personal history of modern India told from the bottom up

About the Author

Sujatha Gidla was born an untouchable in Andhra Pradesh. She studied physics at the Regional Engineering College, Warangal, and was later a researcher in applied physics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Her writing has appeared in The Oxford India Anthology of Telugu Dalit Writing. She works as a conductor on the subway in New York