Amma’s Daughters: A Memoir
Author: Meenal Shrivastava
Added by: carl
Added Date: 2020-03-06
Language: eng
Subjects: Languages and Literatures, Open Access Books
Publishers: Athabasca University Press
Collections: IndiaCulture, JaiGyan
ISBN Number: 9781771991957 9781771991964 9781771991971
Pages Count: 300
PPI Count: 300
PDF Count: 1
Total Size: 122.38 MB
PDF Size: 3.53 MB
Extensions: pdf, gz, zip, torrent
License: Unknown License
Downloads: 191
Views: 241
Total Files: 11
Media Type: texts
Total Files: 5
Description
Book Series: Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
Abstract
As a precocious young girl, Surekha knew very little about the details of her mother Amma’s unusual past and that of Babu, her mysterious and sometimes absent father. The tense, uncertain family life created by her parents’ distant and fractious marriage and their separate ambitions informs her every action and emotion. Then one evening, in a moment of uncharacteristic transparency and vulnerability, Amma tells Surekha and her older sister Didi of the family tragedy that changed the course of her life. Finally, her daughters begin to understand the of their mother’s deep commitment to the Indian nationalist movement and her seemingly unending willingness to sacrifice in the name of that pursuit. In this re-memory based on the published and unpublished work of Amma and Surekha, Meenal Shrivastava, Surekha’s daughter, uncovers the history of the female foot soldiers of Gandhi’s national movement in the early twentieth century. As Meenal weaves these written accounts together with archival research and family history, she gives voice and honour to the hundreds of thousands of largely forgotten or unacknowledged women who, threatened with imprisonment for treason and sedition, relentlessly and selflessly gave toward the revolution.