REVEW OF MY BOOK' AND QUIETLY COMES THE DAWN' ......
The book ‘And Quietly Come Dawn—Haryana: Its Identity Issues, Grassroots Movements & Alternative Endeavours is m eticulously researched with ground reporting and long, painstaking interviews. This book tells not one story, but so many that individual histories and collective memories become a heady synthesis. For instance, the First War of Independence against the East India Company of white British colonial rulers. Or, the Great Indian Mutiny of 1857. It is also a documentation of the current scenario, the dogged working class and women’s liberation struggle, the formations of trade unions and workers’ collectives, the difficulties of waging a relentless battle for justice against a cold-blooded government and its administration and police, the uncanny and persistent caste question, and the inequalities of land distribution and land reforms, the new reassertion of Dalits and other marginalised groups, much to the anger of the dominant castes. The book also documents the sweet sme...
