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Amana Fontanella-Khan

Pink Sari Revolution: A Tale of Women and Power in India

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A triumphant portrait of a fiery sisterhood changing the lives of India's women.In Uttar Pradesh—known as the badlands of India—a woman's life is not entirely her own. This is one explanation for how Sheelu, a seventeen-year-old girl, ended up in jail after fleeing her service in the home of a powerful local legislator. In a region plagued by corruption, an incident like this might have gone unnoticed—except that it captured the attention of Sampat Pal, leader of India's infamous Gulabi (Pink) Gang.Poor and illiterate, married off around the age of twelve, pregnant with her first child at fifteen, and prohibited from attending school, Sampat… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-393-24060-3
  • EAN: 9780393240603
  • Produktnummer: 34247056
  • Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 304 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'140 KB
  • Abbildungen: 10 illustrations

Über den Autor


Amana Fontanella-Khan is the opinion editor at the Guardian's U.S. edition. She was formerly a contributing editor at Vogue India. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, New York Times, Financial Times, Christian Science Monitor, and other publications. She lives in New York City.

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