About the Author

Mahasweta Devi is one of India's foremost writers. Her other novels include Mother of 1084 and Chotti Munda and His Arrow. Sagaree Sengupta teaches South Asian languages and literature at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. She collaborated on this translation with her mother, Mandira Sengupta, an artist who maintains an active interest in her native Bengali literature despite her long residence abroad.

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"There are many histories of the Indian rebellion written by white men about the white men involved; we need writers like Mahasweta Devi to tell us about the same history from the other perspectives."-- "Belletrista"