Amma's Daughters: A Memoir

Amma's Daughters: A Memoir

by Meenal Shrivastava
Amma's Daughters: A Memoir

Amma's Daughters: A Memoir

by Meenal Shrivastava

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Overview

As a precocious young girl, Surekha knew very little about the details of her mother Amma’s unusual past and that of Babu, her mysterious and sometimes absent father. The tense, uncertain family life created by her parents’ distant and fractious marriage and their separate ambitions informs her every action and emotion. Then one evening, in a moment of uncharacteristic transparency and vulnerability, Amma tells Surekha and her older sister Didi of the family tragedy that changed the course of her life. Finally, her daughters begin to understand the source of their mother’s deep commitment to the Indian nationalist movement and her seemingly unending willingness to sacrifice in the name of that pursuit.

In this re-memory based on the published and unpublished work of Amma and Surekha, Meenal Shrivastava, Surekha’s daughter, uncovers the history of the female foot soldiers of Gandhi’s national movement in the early twentieth century. As Meenal weaves these written accounts together with archival research and family history, she gives voice and honour to the hundreds of thousands of largely forgotten or unacknowledged women who, threatened with imprisonment for treason and sedition, relentlessly and selflessly gave toward the revolution.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781771991971
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Publication date: 07/31/2018
Series: Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 326
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

Meenal Shrivastava is professor and academic coordinator of political economy and global studies. She lives on Vancouver Island with her husband.


Meenal Shrivastava is professor of political economy and global studies at Athabasca University.

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 / Bibliography
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