Description
Set against the brutal backdrop of 1968 Tamil Nadu, this novel follows landless Dalit villagers whose lives are crushed by caste power, poverty, and political indifference. Told through a fiercely imaginative, poet-activist voice, the story traces peasant struggle and the stirrings of resistance—until escalating violence erupts into a massacre that exposes how easily “progress” can become another name for dispossession. Blending fiction with sharp social critique, it confronts themes of caste oppression, class conflict, gendered terror, and the long, bitter wait for justice. With its urgent moral clarity and unruly narrative energy, the book turns history into a living indictment—demanding that readers look directly at what society chooses to remember and what it refuses to change.
Available Editions
paperback
Atlantic Books
Published Jan 1, 2014
ISBN: 9781782391784
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Details
First Published
2014
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Gypsy Goddess by Meena Kandasamy.