Vijay Prashad, in Himal Southasian, on Anand Teltumbde’s Khairlanji:

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Rural Dalit ghetto: ‘Khairlanji’ by Anand Teltumbde
Published in Himal Southasian, April 2009
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“…a book that will never allow [the Khairlanji] massacre to be forgotten. Nor will it allow us to think of it as an aberration…Teltumbde has created a solid corpus of work that bears witness to the degradation of Indian democracy, and to the capacity of Indian socialism. India’s revolution is sharpened on the anvil of [his] thoughts.”

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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 …

“The right of life and death was one of sovereignty’s basic attributes,” said Foucault. “The right of life and death is always exercised in an unbalanced way: the balance is always tipped in favour of death.” In post-independence India, the authority of caste found a new ally-the state and its police.
The state admits to the murder of two dalits every day, a crime against a dalit every eighteen minutes. Atrocities pile up, forming a landscape of tears, blood and ashes. It could be said this is not genocide. It could …