The Legend Of Ramulamma [Paperback]

Vithal Rajan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 10, 2008

FINALIST 2008 Next Generation Indie Book Awards A middle-aged, widowed, poor Dalit midwife in a poor village of the Deccan in India uses all the resources of her firm character, her political acumen, her shrewd knowledge of people to deliver justice to the poor, bring powerful landlords to book, and get around the police. She has surprising powers of detection, a superior knowledge of practical medicine, and a gentle knack of helping the rich and powerful out of tight social comers. Sixteen stories present glimpses into the life of this legendary woman, who puts up with abuse and privations with unflinchingly dignity, who will never be known except to people whose lives she has changed forever.

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About the Author

Vithal Rajan, O.C. (BA Hons McGill, PhD London School of Economics) emigrated to Canada from India in the mid 1960s, and worked for several years as Information Officer for Canadian Industries Ltd. (I.C.I.) in Montreal. He served as a mediator in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the early 1970s on behalf of the World Council of Churches and the Pontifical Commission for Justice & Peace. Later, he was a founder faculty member of the School of Peace Studies, Bradford University, U.K. In India, he was founder volunteer chair of the Deccan Development Society, and now is volunteer chair of the Confederation of Voluntary Associations. He is also honorary chair of the ASP Dalit-Bahujan Cooperatives Federation of Andhra Pradesh and Emeritus Chair of SKS, a leading micro-finance agency of India. He is founder trustee, AME India Foundation. He has instituted special scholarships for graduate students at the Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics at the University of Madras; and for girls at Vidyodaya High School Madras. Over the last two decades, he has also worked on brief stints in Europe, as Chair of World Studies, International School of Geneva; as Director, Ethics and Education, World Wide Fund for Nature International, Switzerland; and as Executive Director, the Right Livelihood Awards, Sweden (better known as the Alternative Nobel Prize), and continues on its Jury. In 2006, he was made an Officer, of the Order of Canada, that country's highest national honour, for a lifetime of achievement and merit of a high degree, especially in service to Canada and to humanity at large. He was invited to be a founder Counsellor, of the World Future Council, at its Inaugural Congress in Hamburg, in May 2007.

Product Details

• Paperback: 298 pages
• Publisher: CreateSpace (March 10, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 143484434X
• ISBN-13: 978-1434844347
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds

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