Gita Ramaswamy, Land, Guns, Caste, Woman: The Memoir of a Lapsed Revolutionary (New Delhi: Navayana Publishing, 2022), 432 pp.
Ammel Sharon is Assistant Professor of Social Science at National Law School of India University in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
This book review was originally published in the Economic and Political Weekly.
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