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Amma’s Daughters

A Memoir

By (author) Meenal Shrivastava
Categories: Gender studies: women and girls, Gender studies, gender groups, Social groups and identities, Society and culture: general, Society and Social Sciences
Series: Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters Series
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Paperback : 9781771991957, 340 pages, August 2018
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Table of contents

Preface

A Note on Forms of Address

1 Dislocations

2 Many Homes

3 No Easy Path

4 Meeting Babu

5 City of Conquests

6 Battlegrounds

7 Departures

8 Crossing Thresholds

9 Letting Go

Epilogue

Writing Amma’s Story

Acknowledgements

List of Interviews

Surekha tells the story of her mother, Amma, and the millions of other women who were involved with the Mahatma Ghandi’s freedom fighters and the independence movement of the 1920s.

Description

As a young woman, Amma joined forces with revolutionary freedom fighters that worked in the Mahatma Gandhi–led Civil Disobedience movement. She was connected with a vast network of women whose courage and activism is not adequately understood or rightfully celebrated in connection with India’s independence. Drawing on rich oral history and family diaries, Shrivastava tells the story of the women in her family and their acts of resistance in deeply patriarchal 1920s British India.