MARC details
| 000 -LEADER |
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| fixed length control field |
02633cam a22002897i 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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| control field |
21983416 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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| control field |
20210902132018.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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| fixed length control field |
210407s2021 ii 000 1 eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9789353451561(hbk.) |
| 025 ## - OVERSEAS ACQUISITION NUMBER |
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| Overseas acquisition number |
I-E-2020333742 |
| 037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION |
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| Source of stock number/acquisition |
Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
| Modifying agency |
DLC |
| 041 1# - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
| Language code of original |
ben |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
lcode |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
823.914 AGN |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Agnihotri, Anita, |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Sickle / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Anita Agnihotri ; translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha. |
| 246 ## - VARYING FORM OF TITLE |
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| Title proper/short title |
The sickle |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New Delhi, India |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Juggernaut, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2021. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
261 pages ; |
| Dimensions |
23 cm |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Amazon<br/>SLKA-48085<br/>Rs.403/- |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
The story begins with a Banjari couple, Terna and her husband Datu, working in the fields and staying in the doorless shanties around the sakhar (sugar) factories of Satara. Things are doubly hard for Terna because the mukadam or sugar mill agent, and other men are always on the prowl.<br/><br/>On top of that, “the payment was made at a ‘per sickle’ rate, with husband and wife adding up to one koyta, the local word for the sickle or knife used to harvest the sugarcane.” Agnihotri vividly describes the perils of the region: “The peculiar geographic location of Marathwada keeps it eternally anxious and distressed; delayed monsoon, scanty rains, drought, adversity — these are the variations on its fate.”<br/><br/>Fiction meets fact<br/><br/>Holding a mirror to society, Agnihotri also writes on the politics around farmers’ suicides in Vidarbha and the anxieties of tribal peasants. She peels layer after layer and delves into social evils. One of the characters, Daya Joshi, is a feisty lawyer who has taken up the fight against female foeticide, putting her life at risk. Joshi has built a team with women from 60 villages to take on the clinics which ensure that girls die long before they are born. The stories of Pari and Durga, snatched “from the arms of death”, are some of the few of hope in this cycle of despair.<br/><br/>In the end, migrants, farmers, tribal peasants march from Nashik to Azad Maidan in Mumbai. Fiction meets fact and Agnihotri mentions Rukma Bai, whose photo (“her cracked soles with dried lines of blood on them”) made it to the newspapers.<br/><br/>As the farmers’ agitation against the controversial farm laws continues on the Punjab border, The Sickle provides a backstory explaining what ails agriculture in India |
| 530 ## - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM AVAILABLE NOTE |
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| Additional physical form available note |
Also available as an ebook. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Sinha, Arunava, |
| Relator term |
translator. |
| 906 ## - LOCAL DATA ELEMENT F, LDF (RLIN) |
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| a |
7 |
| b |
cbc |
| c |
origode |
| d |
4 |
| e |
ncip |
| f |
20 |
| g |
y-gencatlg |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type |
Books |
