Koogai the owl / Cho Dharman ; translated by Vasantha Surya.

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TextPublication details: United Kingdom Oxford University Press 2005Description: xix, 368 p. 22 cmISBN:

9780199456734

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DDC classification:

894.811 23 TAR

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From Kooththu to Koogai / by Cho. Dharman -- 'A bottle of arrack and a party flag': on dialects, castes, legends, and local lore / by Vasantha Surya -- 'When Kovilpatti sneezed ... ' / an introduction by A.R. Venkatachalapathy -- Koogai.

Summary: Set in the Tirunelveli-Koyilpatti region of Tamil Nadu, this is a perceptive chronicle of the Dalit experience. In this tale of subjugation and resistance, Koogai, the bird, acquires epic proportions as it soars through the fault lines of Dalit intercaste dynamics to become an authentic, contemporary myth.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
General Books	CUTN Central Library Literature	Non-fiction	894.811 TAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	33093
General Books	CUTN Central Library Literature	Fiction	894.811 TAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	26425

Cho. Dharman ; translated from Tamil by Vasantha Surya ; edited by Mini Krishnan

From Kooththu to Koogai / by Cho. Dharman -- 'A bottle of arrack and a party flag': on dialects, castes, legends, and local lore / by Vasantha Surya --
'When Kovilpatti sneezed ... ' / an introduction by A.R. Venkatachalapathy --

Koogai.

Set in the Tirunelveli-Koyilpatti region of Tamil Nadu, this is a perceptive chronicle of the Dalit experience. In this tale of subjugation and resistance, Koogai, the bird, acquires epic proportions as it soars through the fault lines of Dalit intercaste dynamics to become an authentic, contemporary myth.

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