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037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books, Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_a954.035 _bMAL/FI
100			_aMallu Swarajyam
245			_aFIRE OF DEFIANCE
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260			_aNew Delhi _bZubaan Publishers _c2025
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500			_aEven as the movement for Indian independence gathered momentum at the national level in the 1930s and ‘40s, a different kind of mobilization and struggle was unfolding in the Telangana region. Led by the Communist Party, the Telangana armed struggle swept through the Nizam’s dominions, targeting the exploitative practices of the doras, or landlords. Hundreds of men and women, from a wide spectrum of social locations, participated in the movement, and pictures of women wielding rifles have today become iconic. Among the many women in the movement was Mallu Swarajyam, who joined the armed squads of the movement and also became a cultural activist. Her extraordinary story, as told to three women, is captured here. In her words: “I also worked in the Kothagudem coal mines. Our informants were tribal women who went into the forest to gather mahuva flowers. On one occasion, we received information that the police were travelling in a bus along the route. I stormed onto the road, stopped the bus and punctured its tyres with my pistol.
650			_aTelangana Armed Struggle, 1946–1951
650			_aPeasant uprisings
650			_aWomen revolutionaries
700			_aPurnima Tammireddy (tr.) _aUma Chakravarti _aVimala Morthala _aKatyayini S.
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999			_c198729 _d198729