An Education for Rita. (Record no. 62097)

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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789392018213
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : International Book Distributors
Distributor address : Flat No.-17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi
Bill Number : 120599
Bill Date : 20/07/2024
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 822.914 KAR
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Karat, Brinda.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title An Education for Rita.
Remainder of title : A Memoir 1975-1985.
Statement of responsibility, etc / Brinda Karat.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc , New Delhi
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Naya Rasta Publishers
Date of publication, distribution, etc ,2024.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 206p.
Dimensions : 24cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 245
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc August 1975. The Emergency is barely two months old. A group of communists meet at night in a small room in Kamla Nagar in north Delhi. They sit on the floor around a flickering oil lamp. Thirteen of them are men, workers from the Birla Cotton Textile Mill. One is a woman. She has given up an airline job in London, and dreams of drama school, to come back to India to join the communist party. With arrest a real possibility, she is asked to take on a new name. Thus Brinda becomes Rita, a name she keeps for a decade. An Education for Rita transports us into a Delhi most don’t know, introducing us to fascinating characters and tumultuous events — from strikes of the textile workers to the displacement of the poor during the Emergency, from the anti-dowry struggles of the early 1980s to the horrific anti-Sikh violence of 1984. This is the story of a remarkable transformation, of grit and perseverance, and of courage. It is also the story of lifelong bonds that transcend class and background, of comradeship and sisterhood. Above all, it is the story of a young woman of privilege discovering the hard and harsh realities of the urban working class, the industrial areas and the bastis of Delhi, and learning to organise to fight for a better world.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Education
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Communist party
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Story
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Brinda Karat.
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type Books
Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Date acquired Source of acquisition Cost, normal purchase price Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Price effective from Koha item type
    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 26/07/2024 International Book Distributors 245.00   822.914 KAR 30293 26/07/2024 26/07/2024 Books
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