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Khairlanji: ‘A Must Have’

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Reviews of Anand Teltumbde’s Khairlanji: A Strange and Bitter Crop, which chronicles the Khairlanji massacre and its genealogy, call it ‘engaging’ (The New Indian Express), ‘well-researched’ (The Telegraph) and ‘a must-have in your collection.’ (Mint Lounge)

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  • Tehelka: “A saga of pain, agony, exclusion, cumulative deprivation and discrimination, a substantive addition to the literature on dalits by an insider.”
  • The Telegraph: “Teltumbde’s research is exhaustive and he shies away from sensationalizing the tragedy. Khairlanji will force readers to ponder whether modernity and globalization hold any promises for the disempowered in this country.”
  • New Indian Express: ‘”A well-researched book, it uses Khairlanji as a peg to explore the  complexities of casteism in contemporary India… Engaging.”
  • The Statesman: “This is a work of demystification. A work that does not build myths of heroic Dalit militancy. This is about caste oppression seen from the bottom upwards, as a struggle against the quotidian violence that lies at the heart of Hindu society.”
  • Mint Lounge: “A disturbing study of the origins and the meanings of the heinous massacre of four members of a Dalit family in a village in Maharashtra in 2006,shows us the ubiquity of caste prejudice in both state and society.”