UNCLAIMED HARVEST

Kavita Panjabi

In 1946, landless peasants in Bengal rose up in protest against feudal landlords and launched a movement to retain two-thirds—tebhaga—of the grain they harvested. More than 50,000 women participated in the Tebhaga movement. Using critical insights garnered from oral history and memory studies, the feminist scholar Kavita Panjabi tells the story of their struggle.

Zubaan, 380 pages, Rs 995