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Description

1. 342 pages; 22 cm

Summary

1. Who can you love? What do you owe to love and what to the world at large? Such are the questions that drive the story of Ramu, a Brahmin man, and Ponni, a woman of the Dalit "untouchable" caste. Set against the backdrop of twentieth-century South India, the novel takes readers from the 1890s village where Ramu's grandmother grew up to the Emergency years of 1970s Madras. Against this sweeping canvas unfolds the drama of Ramu and Ponni's forbidden love, inescapably intertwined with the great struggle against caste oppression. Caught up in the entanglements of love and politics, the couple risk everything to fight for a better society. Will they succeed? Steeped in history, this memorable inter-caste love story shows ordinary people moved to uncommon courage in their desire to make a difference in a ruthless world. -- Back cover.

Subject

1. Caste-based discrimination > India > Fiction
2. Brahmans > India > Fiction
3. India > Politics and government > 20th century > Fiction
4. Dalits > India > Fiction

Call number

1. JFD 17-6087

Author

1. Shankar, Subramanian, 1962- author.

Title

1. Ghost in the tamarind : a novel / S. Shankar.

Publisher

1. Honolulu, Hawaiʻi : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2017]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Other form:

1. Online version: Shankar, Subramanian, 1962- author. Ghost in the tamarind Honolulu, Hawaiʻi : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2017] 9780824867232

LCCN

1. 2017025978

ISBN

1. 9780824867218 hardcover
2. 0824867211 hardcover
3. 9780824867225 paperback
4. 082486722X paperback

Research call number

1. JFD 17-6087