A review by milkegg
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India by Sujatha Gidla

medium-paced

3.5

Interesting look into an often hidden component of communist/Dalit organizing in post-independence South India. Gidla does a great job charting the main family's struggles and triumphs, but at the same time, this book could have really benefited from a dramatis personae/family tree and a map of Andhra Pradesh. I would have really liked more insight into Satyam's later organizing as part of the Naxalite movement, but I get logistically why that could not have been accomplished.