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The Life And Work Of Moovalur Ramamirtham Ammaiyar
B. Jeevasundari
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Moovalur Ramamirtham Ammaiyar spent almost her entire life fighting against the devadasi system in Tamil Nadu, a practice that dedicated young girls to temples, where they were meant to be available for the sexual needs of priests and landowners. Sold off by her parents, and brought up to dedicate herself as a dasi, she managed to escape this fate and make a life for herself. Her battle against the devadasi system was met with considerable resistance, not only by those with vested interests in keeping the devadasis inside temples, but often by the devadasis themselves. But Moovalur persisted, taking her cause, and its wider ramifications into the broader politics of the Congress party, and later the Self-Respect Movement. Despite this, in the annals of recent Tamil history, she was hardly known, until the publication, in 2006 of Moovalur Ramamirtham: Vazhvum Paniyum (translated here as The Life and Work of Moovalur Ramamirtham Ammaiyar). Put together through interviews with her surviving relatives and fragments garnered from a handwritten manuscript, this is the first book to document the ?braveheart? of Dravidian history, Moovalur Ramamirtham Ammaiyar.
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| Author | B. Jeevasundari |
| Publisher | Zubaan |
| Language | English |
| Binding Type | Paper Back |
| Non Fiction | Society & Culture |
| ISBN13 | 9789390514977 |
| SKU | BK 0182613 |
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