Unclaimed harvest: an oral history of the Tebhaga women's movement / Kavita Panjabi
Material type: TextSeries: Zubaan AcademicPublication details: New Delhi Zubaan Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2017Description: lvi, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cmISBN:- 9789383074549 (hbk.)
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1943: As the British Empire draws to a close, the state of Bengal is just emerging from the grip of famine. Exploited mercilessly by feudal landlords, landless peasants rise in protest and launch a movement to retain two-thirds of the grain they harvest - Tebhaga. More than 50,000 women participated in this movement: one whose history and tragic end - in the crossfire between state violence and revolutionary armed struggle - became a legend in its time. Yet in the written history of Tebhaga, its women barely feature.
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