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Viramma

Viramma is an agricultural worker and midwife in Karani, a village near Pondicherry in south-east India. She told her life story, over ten years, to Josiane and Jean-Luc Racine. It was published in France as Une vie paria (Pocket), and in the UK as Viramma: Life as an Untouchable (Verso).

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‘All my children have been buried where they died’

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