About the Book: Land, Guns, Caste, Woman
The epic story of a revolution without a gun. In her teens, Gita Ramaswamy
escapes the brahminical clutches of her family that tried to cure her of
Naxalism with shock treatment. She endures the horrors of the Emergency. She is
disillusioned. But not without hope. In the 1980s, Gita starts living with
agricultural labourers in Telangana. They are landless dalits, caught between a
reddy and a hard place. They are in bondage, cheated out of land and all rights.
They are in the mood to fight. Together, they take on the tyrannical landlords
who brutalized the villages for generations.