: This book tells the remarkable story of a 21st century ‘slave revolt’ in the heart of India #IndiaNEWS This book tells the story of how one small group of impoverished, malnourished, and transgenerationally

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This book tells the remarkable story of a 21st century ‘slave revolt’ in the heart of India #IndiaNEWS
This book tells the story of how one small group of impoverished, malnourished, and transgenerationally enslaved men and women fought to liberate themselves from their slaveholders, wrest control of the rock quarry in which they worked, found their own town called Azad Nagar, and become masters of their own fates. It also tells the story of the precarity of that hard-won freedom, as they fought to sustain their liberty without the tools necessary to run their own businesses, develop their town, or improve the opportunities available to their children. But not coincidentally or insignificantly, whispers and deflection suggested for years that there was something troubling about Azad Nagar’s success. Was it too good to be true? It was not until townspeople had reached yet another breaking point that they were ready to tell the whole story of their struggle for freedom – including the murderous violence hitherto unmentioned in the global celebrations of their revolution – as well as the subsequent dissolution of it.The stories of the Azad Nagar Revolt reveal how it is that slavery continues to exist in the twenty-first century, how the slow and possibly interminable dissolution of the caste system has led to a veritable class war in India,...Read more

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