Tillers: The land that was ours: A 5000-year struggle for redemption
They were the "Masters of the Soil"-the original inhabitants of South India with a mix of ancient lineages. Then, the world changed.
Spanning five millennia, Tillers is a sweeping epic that unearths the buried history of the Pulaya people. It begins in the brick-lined streets of The Indus Valley and follows a deep ancestral migration to the caste-less society of Tamilakam. As the shadows of a vicious social order fall over Keralanadu, the masters of the fields are transformed into the "livestock" of the temple-stripped of their land, their modesty, and their names.
Through the eyes of generations-from the migrant Chaathan, who sought sanctuary in the ghosts of the ancient port of Muziris, to Koran, who witnessed the slow climb from "pits in the dirt" to the dignity of a bowl-this book chronicles a struggle that is both intimate and global.
Tillers is more than a chronicle; it is a reclamation. From the silence of Janaki's sacrifice to the fire of Madhavan's intellect, it follows a lineage that refused to stay broken. Their land was stolen, their dignity stripped, and their modesty denied. But their spirit remained unbroken-and the earth remembered its true masters.
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