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Khairlanji: a strange and bitter crop

By: Series: Holocaste, 1Publication details: New Delhi Navayana 2008Description: 214 p., 23 cISBN:
  • 9788189059156
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.5688
Summary: In Khairlanji, on 29 September 2006, 44-year-old Surekha Bhotmange and her daughter Priyanka Bhotmange were stripped, paraded naked, and raped repeatedly. Surekha's sons Roshan and Sudhir were lynched. The entire village was involved. The four bodies were dumped into a canal. The Bhotmanges were dalit. The Bhotmanges have been forgotten. After all, two dalits are murdered every day in India. Anand Teltumbde reconstructs one of post-independence India's worst caste atrocities and tells us how and why Khairlanjis are always around us. Source: http://navayana.org/?p=38
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Books Vikram Sarabhai Library Rack 11-B / Slot 416 (0 Floor, West Wing) General Stacks 305.5688 T3K4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 168654

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In Khairlanji, on 29 September 2006, 44-year-old Surekha Bhotmange and her daughter Priyanka Bhotmange were stripped, paraded naked, and raped repeatedly. Surekha's sons Roshan and Sudhir were lynched. The entire village was involved. The four bodies were dumped into a canal. The Bhotmanges were dalit. The Bhotmanges have been forgotten. After all, two dalits are murdered every day in India. Anand Teltumbde reconstructs one of post-independence India's worst caste atrocities and tells us how and why Khairlanjis are always around us. Source: http://navayana.org/?p=38

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